Telenor and Sun Microsystems in partnership: On-line to develop mobile Internet solutions
“The partnership with Sun has great potential if we succeed with the first common solutions for mobile Internet,” explains Stig M. Herbern, Managing Director of Telenor Mobil. He emphasises that the partnership with the Sun-Netscape Alliance is based on its reputation and leading-edge skills in the Internet and Internet products.
“For its part, Sun has chosen Telenor Mobil as its partner because the company is one of the world’s most advanced and future-oriented mobile operators, also in the area of WAP services,” adds Jørgen Myrland, Managing Director of Sun Microsystems. He explains that the Sun-Netscape Alliance has chosen a limited number of mobile operators in Europe as its strategic partners, and that Telenor Mobil will be a vital partner in the Nordic countries.
The partnership involves close contact between the companies’ product and development teams. The partners will also exchange market and sales experience, in a continual process of improvement of products and services to end-users.
Telenor Mobil’s customers will primarily see the results of the partnership in the spring, at the planned launch of a mobile organiser/calendar with access both from the web and WAP. The calendar will download content and events from the web, and include mobile payment solutions.
Mobile Internet, although in early stage of development at the moment, is a growth sector for the future. Industry estimates state that within three or four years there will be more users accessing the Internet with mobile phones than with PCs.
For further information, please contact:
- Telenor Mobil, Director of Information, Elisabeth H. Gjølme, tel. +47 901 40 449, +47 22 78 51 00.
- Sun Microsystems, Account Manager Telecom, Knut Alnæs, tel. +47 934 48 434, +47 22 02 39 02
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Background:
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance:
America Online, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. formed the Sun-Netscape Alliance in order to provide comprehensive user-friendly business and e-commerce solutions and services to business partners and companies competing in the Net economy. The Alliance’s product portfolio offers its customers the market’s most scalable and integrated software and a family of production-ready e-commerce applications. The products are available for the most common platforms on the market, including DEC, HP, IBM, Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows and Sun Microsystems. The Alliance’s products include: messaging and calendar, web, application, directory and certificate servers. The Alliance also offers production-ready applications for e-commerce, including commercial exchange, procurement, selling and billing. More information can be found at www.iplanet.com
About Sun Microsystems:
Sun Microsystems Inc. is one of the world’s leading suppliers of hardware for open systems, network solutions, as well as Internet and intranet technology. The company sells for USD 12 billion per year, and employs more than 27,000 throughout the world. The Nordic division was established more than 10 years ago, and sells for more than USD 3 billion. In May 1998, Sun Microsystems Inc. founded Sun Microsystems AS as a PLC in Norway. Sun Microsystems AS is one of the leading suppliers of UNIX systems to the Norwegian market, and is steadily increasing its market share. The Sun-Netscape Alliance places Sun at the forefront of setting the premises for e-solutions. More information can be found at www.sun.no.
About Telenor Mobil:
Telenor Mobil is one of the world’s leading mobile telephony operators. The company occupies a strong position on its home market, with a 70 percent market share in a country where more than 60 percent of the population own a mobile phone. Telenor Mobil offers a wide range of advanced services at prices that are among the cheapest in the world, and the company is in the forefront of provision of WAP services, high speed circuit switched data (HSCSD) and mobile commerce. Its ambition is to also take a leading position in mobile Internet.
