Are they counting existing HTML sites being converted to WAP as well???
Eric Hildum
> From: Tony Chan <tonyc@telecomasia.net>
> Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 17:15:46 +0800
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: number of WAP pages
>
> Hi Juergen,
>
> Thanks for the input. There was actually no methodology given for the
> survey, nor any definition as such for an individual page was. The stats
> that I got from Goldman were that, from next to none in Dec 1999, there
> are now "more than 4.4 million WML pages," online as of Aug 2000. That's
> 4.4 million in 8 months, or nearly half a million WML pages a month.
> Even if you calculate each WAP site with 100 individual pages, that
> would mean 5,000 new WAP sites (presumably new WAP content providers as
> well) a month. Either that means there is a lot of content creation
> support for the platform, or there is a lot of really big sites with
> hundreds of sub-pages. That or someone is lying.
> Pinpoint, who supposedly did the survey has a Web site (add .com), but
> does not have any information on the findings. Presumably, the survey
> was done internally for the WAP Forum, so not available to the public.
>
> I agree totally that there is a lot of confusion with terms to describe
> the Internet, wireless of wired, with much of the information completely
> meaningless to most people except for journalist looking for a story or
> web sites which might want to sell advertising or attract investors.
>
> On the other hand, a sudden surge of content for WAP might indicate some
> kind of acceptance on the industry's part for the platform although i
> suspect and from my experience testing out a WAP service on Hutchison's
> network in Hong Kong, that only highly localized content will work.
> Besides, trying to get outside an operator's menu using a WAP phone is
> near impossible, probably because they don't provision international
> bandwidth to support mobile phones accessing overseas content. Also
> according to my colleagues here at the magazine, some WAP phones don't
> even let you bookmark sites, so users are forced to laborously enter the
> address of WAPsites each time.
>
> Tony
>
> Juergen Specht wrote:
>
>
>> If you can provide us with the definition what exactly is a 'individual
>> page'? If a 'page' (something what you see on your screen) is
>> dynamically generated (and most are) than you can not count individual
>> pages. And because of the 'deck' concept of WAP 'pages', how does they
>> count?
>
> [excessive quoting removed]
>
>
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Received on Sat Nov 4 02:29:08 2000