1. Wireless Village (WV) Mobile IMPS ( Instant Messaging and Presence Services) Reporter : Allen

2. Outline Market Opportunity Mobile IMPS Market Demand & Projections WV Introduction WV Solution WV Interoperability Framework Who Benefits from the WV Solution? Conclusion

3. Market Opportunity I Instant Messaging is just the beginning  Popularity is indicator of customer desire for presence 623 million worldwide instant messaging users by 2003 (IDC) Wireless messages sent per month will balloon from 3 Billion in 2000 to 244 Billion by 2005 (Cahners)  Wireless Internet users will benefit from presence Mobile phones, pagers, PDA’s, network appliances By 2004 3 Million two-way pagers will be used in the US (Forrester)

4. Market Opportunity II Presence will be as pervasive as e-mail  1.3 Billion wireless Internet users by 2004 (Source: Cahners InStat)  Presence is viral and grows exponentially - “network effect”  All wireless devices and applications will use presence Increased business/corporate spending  Wireless application spending among North American enterprise businesses will increase six-fold in the next two years to $878 million (Source: Research Portal.com)

5. Mobile IMPS Market Demand Instant Messaging is 3rd most desired Internet Application on a mobile phone IM is #1 feature on Smart phones for both mobile professionals and mobile consumers Researchportal.com

6. Mobile IMPS Market Projections IM is #1 favorite “Forward Looking” wireless Internet feature for Mobile Consumers ( Researchportal.com ) 46% of all Fortune 1000 companies plan to implement IM by the end of 2001 ( Forrester Research )

7. Justification for Wireless Village Mobile IMPS Huge growth of SMS  Usage patterns in Europe  Highly successful business model Huge growth of desktop IM  AIM/ICQ (130M registered/40M active)  Yahoo (10-15M registered users)  MSN (10-15M registered users) Lack of a common standard Success of recent wireless industry coalitions Customer demand for interoperable mobile solution

8. Wireless Village Introduction A new industry initiative for mobile Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) The goal of the Wireless Village initiative to ensure interoperability of mobile IMPS Founded by Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia in April 2001 and Consolidated into OMA in June 2002

9. Wireless Village Solution The WV IMPS includes four primary features:  Presence Client device availability, user status, location, client device capabilities (voice, text, multimedia), and searchable personal statuses such as mood and hobbies  Instant Messaging Desktop IM clients, two-way SMS and two-way paging  Groups (Chat) a fun and familiar concept on the Internet  Shared Content allows users and operators to setup their own storage area  pictures, music and other multimedia content

10. WV Interoperability Framework Includes the WV system architecture and an open protocol suite at the IMPS application level Client–server-based system

11. WV Protocol Suite The WV Protocol Suite consists of the following items:  Command Line Protocol (CLP) legacy CLI client (2G; SMS)  Client-Server Protocol (CSP) designed to provide Embedded Clients in mobile terminals and desktop clients access to the Wireless Village Server  Server-Server Protocol (SSP) designed to provide the communication and interaction means among the WV Servers and the SSP Gateways

12. Wireless Village Protocol Stack

13. WV System Architecture mobile handsets, handheld computers, PDAs and other mobile devices Communicate with Internet and Mobile Core Network MSN, Yahoo, Jabber server

14. Who Benefits from the Wireless Village Solution? Everyone benefits from the WV solution:  End Users Enjoy the WV services (don’t need multiple IMPS)  Device Manufacturers having only to implement a single protocol to support a common set of widely adopted features  low power consumption, storage space, memory and cost  Service Providers having to deploy a single server solution that will address multiple customer needs  Application Developers have a common framework upon which they can build new services for presence, messaging, group and content delivery

15. Conclusion A community building effort  Building a community of technology companies around a common standard  Enabling service providers to build their own persistent end-user communities An industry leading initiative  Comprehensive solution that leverages a standards-based approach to wireless IMPS The WV supporters are leaders in wireless communications solutions

16. Make Money from WV Mobile IMPS ? Opportunity