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To: Quincy who wrote (22854)	2/11/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Qcom & Msft Trials To Begin> Microsoft-Qualcomm Venture to Begin Tests With Cellular Firms By Andrew Brooks at Bloomberg News 11 February 1999 WirelessKnowledge LLC, a joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., expects to begin trials of its cellular Internet access and other data services with wireless-phone providers in the next two weeks. The services give corporate users of wireless phones and laptop computers access to electronic mail, phone directories and calendars, as well as the global computer network. The services are expected to be available in the second half of this year, Chief Executive John Major said. No. 1 software company Microsoft and cellular-equipment maker Qualcomm set up WirelessKnowledge last year to develop cellular data services and provide secure links between corporate and wireless networks. The venture is working with cell-phone companies that want to link traveling executives to the Internet when they use wireless phones and laptop computers. "We're testing and sampling and getting the industry up to speed," Major said in an interview at a trade show in New Orleans. "The second half (we'll) start to roll out real users and high-volume applications." Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled an alliance with British Telecommunications Plc, the No. 1 U.K. phone company, to develop data services for BT's wireless network. WirelessKnowledge will have a role in the alliance, Major said. Though Major declined to comment about specific companies that will test the services, he said all of the carriers that endorsed the venture in November are signed up. Those companies include AirTouch Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., BCE Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp., BellSouth Corp., GTE Corp., Leap Wireless International Inc., Sprint PCS and U S West Inc. "They're all on board, and more are coming," Major said. WirelessKnowledge sells its service to the carriers, which in turn sell them to customers. The venture as acts a go-between for wireless networks and corporate computer networks, ensuring secure links for companies and translating information for wireless users. For example, WirelessKnowledge reformats World Wide Web pages so they're more readable on small phone screens. "What we're attempting to do is provide for the carriers a common solution set very much like what Visa provided for the banks for (credit card) purchases," Major said. WirelessKnowledge isn't alone. Other technology companies are teaming up to develop Internet services for cellular networks. Earlier this week, Netscape Communications Corp. said it will provide Web links for Nextel Communications Inc. wireless customers. Equipment makers Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. said they will work together to create standards for a wireless Internet. Major expects cellular phones equipped with Internet browsers to double the number of users on the Internet. Cell- phone customers will account for more than half of all Internet users by 2003, he said. For WirelessKnowledge, the added users mean more revenue. The company currently collects fees from phone companies for developing the services and will get added sales as commercial users sign up. "This could be a very, very big business," Major said. "WirelessKnowledge, as an early play in this field, will get more than its fair share." 'User control' ushered in by service providers Japan plans Internet router assault France heralds fall of its crypto 'Maginot Line' Potter's plan: Time to venture forth Finland beats U.K. in race to license UMTS Wireless operators, PTOs: Backs to the future Fighting porn on the Net Billing in the Euro Wireless data: The need for speed Y2K: Time stands still © EMAP M

To: Quincy who wrote (22854)	2/11/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

ITU-Secretary General To Speak> ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi to Speak At SUPERCOMM '99 BUSINESS WIRE ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1999--Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), will share his vision of the competitive global information industry in a keynote address at the Global Telecom Market (GTM)/International Engineering Consortium (IEC) Luncheon at SUPERCOMM '99 at 1:00 p.m., Monday, June 7. "The telecommunications industry is entering the crucial years of a new century," explained Utsumi. "SUPERCOMM offers an excellent opportunity to share with a top-level audience my vision of how to bring the benefits of communications technology to people worldwide." Often referred to as a founding father of Japan's competitive telecommunications system, Utsumi was a major player in the introduction of the country's Policy of Competition and Liberalization in Telecommunications, which led to Japan's first telecommunications market reform. He was also a major driving force in many of Japan's most important projects to develop multimedia industries, including a nationwide optical-fiber network for advanced communications and the creation of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATRI). On the international scene, Utsumi has played a very active role in many negotiations, and in particular those leading to the historic World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on basic telecommunications. He also chaired the 1994 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference. At the senior policy-making level, he served as Japan's MPT Director-General, assistant Vice-Minister and Deputy Minister until his election as Secretary-General of ITU on October 20, 1998, by the Minneapolis Plenipotentiary Conference. "We are honored to have Mr. Utsumi speak as part of SUPERCOMM's GTM/IEC Luncheon," said Matthew J. Flanigan, president, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), co-sponsor of SUPERCOMM. "His insights into the telecommunications industry will provide attendees with a first-hand global perspective of where the industry is headed." SUPERCOMM '99, the premier annual international communications technology exhibition and conference, will be held June 6-10 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. For information on attending SUPERCOMM '99, call 800/2-SUPERC (278-7372) or outside the U.S., call 312/559-3327. Visit the official SUPERCOMM '99 Web site at www.supercomm99.com for up-to-the-minute information. SUPERCOMM, the premier annual international communications technology exhibition and conference, is presented jointly by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), www.tiaonline.org, Arlington and the United States Telephone Association (USTA), www.usta.org, Washington, DC. SEQN: BW1167 (Copyrigh