It will become a trend that mobile phone can connect with the internet, and WAP Host is a technology to make that happen. Now, the growth of mobile web visiting is faster than PC visiting. This also means that most of the mobile phones will intergrated with WAP Host browsers, and the WAP Host business is huge market to be developed.
1. 3G Network Will Solve the Problem of Data Transmission.
For a long time, the low speed and high cost is blocking the development of mobile web. The 2.5G mobile web has now greatly increased the transmission capacity, and promoted the development of WAP Host business. But neither the GPRS of Telecom or the CDMA1X of Netcom can perfectly solve this problem. Only when the 3G network is built, we can enjoy a fast and smooth network.
When it goes to the 3G, Telecom will never be the only powerful net dealer, and there will be more in the whole market. The market will be reshape, and more competition will promote the development of it.
2. WAP2.0 is Reshaping the Market.
WAP is a great support for mobile web visiting. A very important part of value-up business is the transmission speed of data, and now many different version have been developed. The latest WAP2.0 is greatliy increasing the transmission speed and can provide much richer resource. One very important advantage of WAP2.0 is that it can be run under the new internet standard. It has better transmission speed and use the xHTML language. It is now becoming a great convenience for both developers and users. WAP2.0 is playing a more and more important role, and wins more and more users for the market.
3. Unbalaced Regional Development of WAP Host.
Globally, the WAP Host site is by far developed, Korea is right after it. The value-up service is contributing more than 20% of the total revenue. The NTTDoCoMo company and DDI are doing especially good, and the proportion is up to 30%.
Because of the using habit, the national mobile business is basically on verbal calls, and the WAP Host value-up service is quite little. It only takes up 2% of the China Telecom and China Netcome, so there is a huge potential market for WAP Host business. As the development of 3G network and more and more WAP Host mobile put into market, and China is sure to be the biggest market for WAP Host.
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