Making Way for 3G Offerings

As U.S. wireless users continue their slow but steady march toward 3G wireless acceptance, several companies are working on making such services easier to deploy in terms of billing and applications.

Companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Openwave Systems Inc., IPWireless Inc. and Emblaze Semiconductor Ltd. are trying to take advantage of third-generation network expansion, which has taken place over the past year, by simplifying deployment of complicated applications on the client and the server.

HP this week will announce HP MSDP (Mobile Service Delivery Platform), a set of new and existing software, hardware and integration services designed to let carriers try out new services without having to devote massive management resources to each one - thus keeping customer costs down.

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