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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (12000)	5/29/2001 1:29:05 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

re: Opera to be Default Symbian Microbrowser >> Norway's Opera Browser Seals Symbian Deal May 29, 2001 Wireless Week Norway's tiny Opera Software on Tuesday announced a contract to provide its Internet browser on cell phones using the Symbian consortium's operating systems. ``This is really a breakthrough for us in a very important market,'' Jon S. von Tetzchner, co-founder and chief executive of Oslo-based Opera, said. ``It could be an enormous number of phones.'' Symbian was set up by mobile phone and systems makers Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Panasonic and Psion to develop operating systems for high-tech mobile phones that allow users to surf the Web and can be used simultaneously as address- and datebooks. Similar wireless devices are being developed with Symbian technology by Kenwood, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. Under the contract, Opera will be the default browser in Symbian-based devices. Von Tetzchner said it was impossible to estimate the contract's value and that it was based on a per telephone license fee that he refused to disclose. ` `We're moving into a market where for millions of users their first experience of accessing the Internet will be from a mobile device,'' said Mark Edwards, of Symbian said in a news release. ``Opera Software offers the most advanced specifications and features available in the market today.'' Opera was born of a project abandoned by the Norwegian state telephone company Telenor ASA and taken over by its two developers, von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsoey. They set up the company in 1995, and offered the first version of their browser a year later. Opera has become the world's third largest browser after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and No. 2 Netscape. Both Symbian and Opera compete with industry giants like U.S.-based Microsoft, which has been delayed in releasing its own smart phone browser called Stinger. Opera's browser has won widespread praise for its speed, simplicity and the compactness of its program, which is of particular importance in handheld devices with limited memory capacity. Opera employs just over 100 people in humble offices above a car dealership. Its browser enjoyed broad popularity, even though it came at a price when it's main rivals were available for free. Last year, Opera launched a free version of its browser, funded by advertising. << - Eric -

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (12000)	5/29/2001 1:54:17 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

although the average minutes for all mobile phones comes down to something like 3 minutes a day for the UK (remember there's a big market out there that doesn't use them, even though they have them - emergency only usage). The 3 minutes I believe is an Oftel figure. I'm not sure if I am understanding you correctly....minutes of use in the UK only averages 90 minutes a month? That seems extraordinarily low, PCS averages 420 minutes, Verizon over 200 (cant remember the exact figure) and Leap is around 1100 (although with a different business strategy). A slide I saw in Nextel presentation indicated that 11% of all voice minutes in the US were now transmitted wirelessly. I think that the transistion of the bulk of the rest of the minutes to a wireless network will drive much of the need for the 3G spectrum. Slacker