Hi all, it is not only the content delivery standards but really the
limitations in the hardware at present that will not allow such crossover
between iMode and PC-based Internet access.
I think you will find "next-generation" Java-style languages arriving on the
scene which will make seamless transactions or information transfer across
multiple access devices (PDA, mobile, PC, voice portal) a reality. One of
the technologies we are working with now allows you to span a transaction
across devices in real time so that you could start a purchase, or
participate in an online auction, while leaving the office on your PC, then
move it onto your keitai when you leave the office picking up exactly where
you left off on your PC with no chance of data loss. This new environment
allows you to write an application once and have it display on any device
that can access the internet without rewriting any code. A definite
advantage over writing HTML and then WML for WAP, or even CHTL for iMode. I
can't let you know the name of the company yet as I am under NDA, sorry.
More soon.
What I can comment on is the bottom question of billing which is something
that can be done now!
I work representing a company named MetraTech, based out of Boston, that
makes an XML-based billing engine specifically designed for enhanced
(telco/web/ASP/B2B) services across different platforms. This billing
platform let's you have multiple, even unlimited inputs, into the rating
engine from any protocol in almost any programming language. It then spits
out an online bill which is interactive and updated in real time.
I won't write too much here and bore you to death but if you want more
information on it just let me know.
I am based in Australia but travel to Japan once or twice per month. I will
be moving up there permanently in about 8 weeks.
Thanks
Andrew Sandes
AsiaEntry
Product Marketing Manager
Phone: +61 2 9460 4565
Fax: +61 2 9460 2815
Mobile:+61 411 325 885
Email: andrew@asiaentry.com
-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:49 AM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Looking beyond Japan
Hey All
I'm thinking about the future of mobile phone businesses and content
providers, and I've some purely speculative questions that I would like to
put to the knowledgeable subscribers to this list:
What are your projections for when content delivery standards for
mobile
phones will be standard enough that one could make a web site for phones and
have it available to the whole world - just as one can do now with the
"standard" web on computers?
Does that exist in a small way now? I only have an I-mode phone, so
I'm not
sure if a J-Sky Net or EzWeb phone will be able to see a WAP based site from
Finland. I know you can make an I-mode site anywhere in the world, and
I-mode phones anywhere will be able to see it, but that's kind of an
academic point since currently I-mode phones are only available in Japan
(and soon Korea?).
Does anyone have any predictions for what future billing might look
like?
Let's say I have some kind of an XML based site, and so you can see if from
your phone, your computer, your webTV, whatever. It has some services that
you want to bill for. In what way will future businesses be able to charge
for their content so that people from any browser/platform will be billed
uniformly? Will such a thing happen by 2003? 2005? Later?
Hmmm.. it's late, and I think my mind is going off into odd
directions.
Hopefully these issues are of interest to the others on this list, and we
can get a little discussion going on them. Please look into your individual
crystal balls and share with us what you see.
Dave
Received on Fri Jul 21 01:54:18 2000