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`AT&T Plans to Offer Internet Over a $500 Wireless Phone
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`By JOHN MARKOFF
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`Published: July 12, 1996
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`SAN FRANCISCO, July 11— Aiming to make it easier to connect wirelessly to the Internet, AT&T's cellular company said today that it planned to introduce a new cellular
`phone and a related service for sending and receiving data over existing cellular networks.
`Using network software that the nation's other large cellular companies also plan to adopt, AT&T Wireless Services said the new service, to be introduced late this year, will
`require that customers obtain a new $500 cellular telephone that will be able to integrate voice and Internet services.
`The new service, which is to be called AT&T Pocketnet, will enable users to display data on the phone's small three-line, liquid-crystal display screen for sending and receiving
`E-mail and other information. Besides some standard Internet services, the AT&T service is to include interactive data applications that would permit, for example, a user to look
`up flight information and then automatically place a cellular phone call to complete a reservation.
`AT&T is hoping that the new digital cellular service will finally permit wireless data applications to reach broader markets. Until now, cellular telephones using standard, or
`analog, technology have provided poor quality for data transmission.
`AT&T Wireless executives said that the service would cost about $30 a month above the cost of standard cellular voice service, plus additional charges for data beyond an initial
`number of minutes each month that the company has not yet determined.
`"Right now it's too expensive to be a mass market product," said Alan Reiter, editor of Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing, an industry newsletter. "But there are 35 million
`people who are willing to carry a cellular phone, so this is no longer a technology question."
`Two new cellular phones with special software are being developed for AT&T by Mitsubishi Electric America and by PCSI, a subsidiary of Cirrus Logic Inc., a Silicon Valley
`chip maker.
`The software for the phones was created by Unwired Planet Inc., a start-up company based in Redwood Shores, Calif., which was founded by Alain Rossman, a longtime Silicon
`Valley executive.
`The software includes a tiny program for browsing the World Wide Web that can be accommodated by the limited amount of memory -- less than 60,000 bytes -- available in a
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`cellular phone.
`Mr. Rossman said that the new software, known as Up.link, was an extreme example of a class of new Internet-access computers that industry executives have come to refer to
`as "thin clients" because of their skimpy hardware and software requirements.
`"We've heard a lot of discussion of thin clients," Mr. Rossman said. "Well, this is an example of an anorexic client."
`While AT&T is the first to announce an Internet-savvy cellular telephone, a number of other major carriers have struck agreements with Unwired Planet, including Ameritech,
`Bell Atlantic, Nynex Mobile, Comcast Cellular Communications and GTE.
`AT&T said it would make the phones available later this year to corporate buyers and beginning selling them commercially in the first quarter of 1997.
`The new Pocketnet service takes advantage of a digital technology known as cellular digital packet data that permits data to be sent and received over standard cellular telephone
`networks. The technology is currently available from AT&T in 22 regions around the country, with the company's other local networks scheduled to receive it.
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