WAP 2001 Update: WAP 2001 Update Presented for WAP RAP On Thursdays 11 January 2001 Scott Goldman - WAP Forum CEO Greg Williams (SBC Corporation) - WAP Forum Chairman of the Board Mike Short (BT Cellnet) - WAP Forum Director Jari Alvinen (Nokia) - WAP Forum Executive Committee Liaison


The WAP Standard Is…: The WAP Standard Is… Open, global and non-proprietary Device and bearer independent A full-fledged Internet citizen Built by consensus by members of the WAP Forum


Global Snapshot: 139 carriers deployed or in final testing (Mobile Lifestreams) Tens of thousands of developers creating apps and content (WAP Forum) 10,000 WAP sites from 95 countries (Cellmania.com) 5+ million WAP-readable pages (up from virtually zero in January 1999)(Pinpoint.com) 50 million WAP-enabled handsets in circulation worldwide, including 20+ WAP-certified handset models (International Data Corp.) Global Snapshot


WAP Forum Membership: WAP Forum Membership 630+ Members - more than double in one year Vendors of 99% of the world’s handsets Carriers with 300+ million subscribers Internet and wireless infrastructure makers Software - billing, customer care, call management Developers - content, applications, portals


WAP Success IndicatorsToday: WAP Success Indicators Today Europe: BT Cellnet now has 660,000 users - QUADRUPULED in six months U.S. - Sprint has 1,000,000 wireless web users Latin America: Brazil’s WAP subscriber uptake already surpassed expectations (Telesp Brazil) WAP site popularity exploding: Genie: 62.5 million hits in Dec. - 500% increase since Sept. Digital Bridges game site has had 15 MILLION hits in six months


WAP Success IndicatorsTomorrow: WAP Success Indicators Tomorrow SMS started slowly - now 15 BILLION messages/month - a 5X growth in 2000 (GSMA) Virtually every mobile phone will be WAP-enabled by EOY 2001 (IDC) 61% of WAP users: satisfied with their WAP experience (Strand Consult) 48% of WAP users: WAP is meeting expectations (Teleconomy) 60,000 people shop using mobile phones every day (Ericsson)


Where WAP is Going…: Where WAP is Going… Driving Market Demand Interoperability Internet / WWW Evolution Doing Convergence Feature Innovation Conformance Enabling Handset evolution Standardization Wireless net evolution


Thousands of Applications Already Available Worldwide: Thousands of Applications Already Available Worldwide M-commerce - shopping, tickets, micro-payments Finance - statements, funds transfer, shares trading M-billing - notification, presentation and payment of bills Enterprise access - inventory, shipment/sales updates, email M-care - customer service, payment status, account updates Entertainment - games, gambling, interactive multi-player events Messaging - communication and collaboration Travel - scheduling, advisories, reservations Location services - traffic reports, parking information, store discounts, event recommendations


Portals And Directories of WAP Services: Portals And Directories of WAP Services Thousands of sites categorized, indexed and viewable through emulators


WAP 2.0 - The Next Generation: WAP 2.0 - The Next Generation Next generation of WAP will include: XHTML (with backwards compatibility to WML) TCP Color graphics Animation Large file downloading Location-smart services Streaming media Data synchronization with desktop PIM


WAP Roadmap (1999-2001): WAP Roadmap (1999-2001) 1999 2000 2001


Looking To The Future…: Looking To The Future… Already successful, but built for tomorrow Adding rich, friendly features in next generation Almost every phone will have a WAP browser Reports show high satisfaction with WAP More than 8 million subscribers worldwide after one year of commercialization


Thank you!: Thank you!