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News Release from: RFI Global Services
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2000
RFI offers help with WAP service
development
Radio Frequency Investigation has developed a range of WAP services to help ensure the reliability and interoperability between network and browser of WAP-enabled products
WAP is probably the most heavily promoted wireless communications enhancement since the advent of GSM For the terminal manufacturer, WAP incorporates many technical challenges in addition to a high user expectation of an Internet service
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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To help manufacturers Radio Frequency Investigation Ltd (RFI) has developed a range of WAP services to help ensure the reliability and interoperability between network and browser of WAP-enabled products.
RFI's WAP Website can be used as a 'target site'.
The site has been developed in Wireless Mark-up Language (WML), it is error-free and can be accessed to exercise mobiles and browsers.
The site can be found at www.rfi-wireless.com/index.wml .
RFI has also developed a series of 12 test pages accessed via the target site which can be used as checking exercises for WAP functionality.
Each page contains a different error, such as alignment, formatting etc to see how products perform.
Before running a page the user is given a description of the error being tested and the anticipated outcome.
Robust mobiles and browsers should cope with these errors with perhaps only minor formatting modifications required, in practice problems can be much worse and include dropped calls and loss of link to the site.
And coming soon is RFI's dedicated test system to allow a mobile to connect to a WML site or even browse without going via the network operator, to help assess the compatibility between a mobile browser.
In addition RFI can offer WAP field trials, WML development services and troubleshooting to support testing and trials work.
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