Advantages Of Moving Towards The Open Mobile Messaging Industry

• The reality of Wireless-IP is accepted & exploited;

• Best of breed devices interoperate with best of breed message centers;

• User, Consumer & Goodness centric -- Not vendor and operator centric.

  • Users are not tied to the service providers and continue to use their devices even after changing services;

• Allows for two-way paging and Internet Email to truly converge;

• Exact same set of messaging capabilities and software can be used across a variety of wireless networks and technologies;

• Longer battery life, less latency, cheaper network usage, more network capacity;

• Competition results into better devices and better services -- economies of scale kick in, big time.