Bridging the Data Application Gap For Carriers

Despite the economic slowdown, the combination of new network capabilities, handsets and infrastructure in the mobile data arena is expected to grow the market from 814 million subscribers worldwide in 2001 to more than 1.3 billion by 2005. To capture a slice of this lucrative market, mobile carriers are looking for software solutions that will help them rapidly create, deploy and manage a wide range of data services. A new software category, the Service Delivery Platform, is emerging as a technology designed to simplify and broaden the opportunity for developers to create wireless data applications.