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Product & Service Directories
- Wireless
Network Services -
Wireless Network Service
Providers - including electronic messaging services, in most cases
- AirTouch :
AirTouch
Cellular is one of the largest wireless carriers in the United States,
providing service in 16 of the top 30 U.S. metropolitan areas. AirTouch Paging products
and services are widely available in 171 markets in 33 U.S. states plus the District of
Columbia.
- Ameritech (now part
of SBC) - circuit-switched cellular, CDPD, and paging (primarily
in IL, IN, MI, OH and WI).
- AT&T's PocketNet
Service - messaging application services
- Bell Atlantic -
"Airbridge" CDPD service
- BellSouth Wireless
Data's Messaging Application - Bell
South wireless data maintains a nation-wide data network based on
Ericsson's Mobitex infrastructure.
- Geotek : Wireless voive
and data services based on digital frequency hopping multiple hopping services
- GoAmerica's Messaging
application services
- GTE Mobile
Data's messaging application services
- Intelligent
Information Incorporated - provides filtered content e.g. stock information, on
intelligent telephones from their own server
- Metricom - Offers a
wireless spread spectrum network access to the Internet at 28.8 Kbps @ 29.95 per month
unlimited use in the Bay area of California, Seattle and Washington. Plans to offer it in
more metropolitan areas - "Having hard time in spreading its footprint elsewhere in
USA and other countries" - Editor
- Motient Wireless Application
Messaging Services (owned by Motient Corporation) - packet switched wireless data services throughout USA, Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands.
- NexTel - an ESMR iDEN
based network offering integrated voice, data and text messaging services in USA.
In Canada, similar service is offered by Clearnet.
- Formerly NOTABLE, now called
Wireless Services Corporation - provides a variety of wireless data communications
services, the most ‘notable’ being AirNote messaging (e-mail and telephone)
service on your pager. It also offers Septor financial information service (time-sensitive
news and stock information).
- SkyTel's messaging and
paging application services - Provides nationwide paging network, including 2-way
paging for low end messaging and transaction based applications.
- Sprint
has announced nation-wide wireless network services for the Internet. Click here
for more info.
Wireless
Application Service Providers (W-ASPs) -
These vendors provide wireless application hosting either on their own
infrastructure i.e. they are conventional ISPs, ASPs and have decided to
get into wireless application hosting business. In some cases,
vendors, such as Broadbeam, specializing in wireless application
development have partnered with ISPs to offer wireless application hosting
services. Go here for this
listing.
Wireless Internet Service Providers
In this category, we list those ISPs that provide
specialized internet access services through wireless networks. While many ISPs claim this
capability, we have decided to list only those ISPS that support wireless network access
as a standard offering, have core competency in wireless, and can offer technical support
to end user organizations. In some cases, these ISPs may provide
application hosting services as well as listed in previous directory
listing.
- GoAmerica
- offers messaging service based on RIM's 850 interactive pager
- Infospace
- offers wireless messaging, instant messaging and other portal
services
- Omnisky -
provides a branded wireless messaging service for use on handheld mobile
devices (Palm and Visor - 3Q 2000))
- Sprint - messaging
service
- WISP - Wireless
Internet Service Provider - offers wireless access to the Internet and Intranet. The
vendor claims to offer optimized wireless link speed on CDPD networks through modem
acceleration software. The company offers several bundled packages at a fixed monthly
rate.
- WolfeTech -
Allows
users to access to the Internet and your
company databases through pagers, PCS phones, PDA's and other two-way wireless devices.
Unique Wireless Application Service
Providers
- iii- Intelligent
Information Incorporated Application Services on digital telephones and pagers - stock
trade, weather, etc.
- 3COM's
Palm.Net Service - allows Palm Pilot userrs to access Internet applications - stock trade,
etc. - Both individual and corporate users can subscribe to the service. Site
maintained by 3COM in cooperation with BellSouth Wireless Data
- Handheldmed.com - a
new web site devoted to handheld computers in clinical medicine. The site provides
reviews of medically related software, news, and advice on the use of PDAs in medicine.
- ePhysician - an
e-commerce site will supply 10,000 Palm handheld computers to physicians. Healthcare
professionals can order lab tests and prescriptions that are routed by ephysician server
to designated lab or drug store.
- MobileStar - a Wireless
Travel Portal in Hotels & Airports: MobileStar has started offering wireless LAN
speed connectivity to the Internet at selected hotels (Hilton, to start with),
airports (e.g. Dallas), airline lounges (American Airlines Admirals Club). You can rent
appropriate (Proxim) PC card for your notebook from the hotel or lounge, if you do not
have one in your notebook. MobileStar is planning a monthly subscription fee
of around $30, a price that includes 50 Mbytes of data transport, and a $1 session fee per
localized session. In most cases, this would average out to
between $40 and $50 a month. "A very
interesting, innovative and useful service indeed for the busy professionals" -
MobileInfo Editor
- SuiteLink for Guests in hotels (A high-speed Internet connection in hotels)
- a combined
notebook,software and network bundle with wireless LAN connection from the notebook at
high speed and then through an Internet DSL link from the hotel to the ISP. Hotel pays $
2.00 per day per room to service provider; guest pays @9.95 per day to the service
provider. People with their own notebooks do not pay $9.95 charge. http://www.hotel-online.com/Neo/News/PressReleases1999_2nd/May99_GuesTech.html
CANADIAN SCENE - Wireless Data
Network Services, including messaging
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