Vodafone want to install gprs-service standard
Vodafone is come till agreement with Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Toshiba and Psion. With them has been arranged that hand hero-computers and tablet pc's standard become foresee by the mobile gprs-services of Vodafone, also well known under the name Braked Access.
Temporary is the alone of application on the gprs-networks of Vodafone in the Netherlands, Germany, Itali, Spain and Sweden.
According to an earlier investigation of Vodafone, gprs contends yet with two problems: men find the starting of the gprs-service too difficult and one makes self see to the safety of the mobile connection.
At that last one has IBM worked. Monday IBM the Thinkpad-computer presented that works with a TCPA-chip (Trusted Computing Platform Alliance) with which thread lynxes connections protected can become.
With the contracts with hardware manufacturers, Vodafone hopes to come also at the other difficulty of customers tegemoet.