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To: justone who wrote (8507)	9/15/2000 10:33:49 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

justone, some good one-line comments on the issue, thanks. Build the network and a web language will come. ...its disadvantage is it is controlled by the carrier. The latter is the first issue that grabbed my attention when I first investigated WAP a ways back. Unless you investigate the transaction profile, this doesn't become apparent, and one gets lulled into thinking they are engaging an open IP environment. Thanks for the telephony pointer. From the article: In the next two years we will hear a lot about 3G rollouts. These "rollouts" will be a mixture of 2.5G and 3G trials with a large dose of hype. Editorial skew aside, isn't WAP portending to be immensely popular in other areas of the globe? One cannot help but think of the similarities here between the old on-line service provider (OLSP) genre that was made up of AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy prior to their integration with www attributes, and the Internet. We had the same dichotomous circumstances, and still do to a large extent. They have been able to survive the Internet assault basically by permitting both modes to almost seamlessly coexist. In other words, they've been able to support their own proprietary frameworks AND the open Internet platforms, on each. Do you imagine that we'll see a multi-mode platform capable of supporting different architectures? Will we see appliances and their respective operating systems accommodating such du-ality? Tri-ality, if you consider some of the other FREE protocols I presented, yesterday?