In providing a link between wireless phone users and Internet users, 911solutions.com has created an exciting opportunity for wireless network operators, Internet content providers and e-commerce companies to mine wireless phone users for information about the exploding market for wireless data services.

The wireless data services 911solutions.com can equip companies with today enable their subscribers to retrieve Internet content using either their WAP-enabled or a desktop. Users configure the 911solutions.com wireless applications themselves through a company-branded Web site operated by 911solutions.com, as well as through regular interaction with the content, e-commerce and portal companies who 911solutions.com develop the a wireless web site for. It works simply like this, subscribers create a wireless data 'profile' that houses their information and e-commerce preferences. They can then retrieve the information they want anytime with only a few keystrokes on their phone.

As subscribers with WAP-enabled phones move between access mediums ie. a desktop, 911solutions.com seamlessly migrates subscribers' wireless data profiles to the new form of delivery. This critical migration strategy guarantees that companies and content providers will continue the relationships they have built with subscribers without an interruption in wireless web or regular services.

The Wireless Data Market
In the past five years, wireless networking and data transmission technologies have come a long way. Where carriers once dealt only in voice-centric networks, the advent of more advanced cellular networks has made the transmission of both voice and data transmissions-including more and more information from Internet content and commerce providers-an emerging force in the wireless market. WAP-enabled phones are either already available from or in rapid development by most of the world's handset manufacturers. These new wireless devices are equipped with microbrowsers-built-in gateways to the Internet that enable users to pull Web-based information on demand.

While carriers and content providers are still searching to understand what information services customers will want, they understand that wireless Internet access is the wave of the future. Just as wireless voice service changed the paradigm of telephony-subscribers could suddenly have calls placed to where they were, not where their phone happened to be-wireless Internet access is freeing up subscribers to access the Internet from where they are, not where their computer happens to be. For these reasons, wireless service providers are forging ahead in wireless data. There is consensus that, as the number of cellular voice subscribers soars from 300 million to 1 billion between the end of 1999 and 2003, the demand for data services will experience relatively similar growth.

911solutions.com and the Wireless Data Opportunity
With its background in wireless networking and web development, 911solutions.com understands the standards and protocols that govern how wireless calls and data are transmitted. 911solutions.com also understands that companies are struggling to develop expertise in the rapidly emerging wireless data and Internet market, and that compounding their struggle is a need to simultaneously maximize their current-web generation technology investments and still devote the resources necessary to upgrade their web sites for WAP-enabled services.

911solutions.com provides companies an opportunity to test the future potential of their next-generation investments today. How? 911solutions.com technology gives web site operators the ability to enable true, two-way Internet communications, content retrieval and e-commerce transactions, through their customers' existing cell phones. There are 30 million current-generation digital phones in service today, and that number is projected to swell to 40 million by the end of 1999.

Without the need to immediately invest in WAP-enabled handsets and the network infrastructure that supports them, companies can begin to identify the types of users and services that next-generation wireless data platforms will attract. In so doing, the companies create invaluable subscriber profiles that will help them tailor services to meet specific market interests. With this information, companies can lower their risks of rolling out WAP-enabled services and ensure an immediate market for wireless data services. Moreover, once the companies do roll out WAP-enabled web sites, 911solutions.com will work with companies to seamlessly migrate their customers-vis-a-vis their profiles-to this new platform.