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WAP handset sales to accelerate

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-As carriers continue to roll out wireless Internet services worldwide, subscribers are expected to migrate to these new data services at a high rate, according to Allied Business Intelligence.

Shipments of WAP-enabled handsets will grow from 33 percent of all handsets this year to 90 percent in 2004, the firm said. Speeding adoption will be a network migration to packet data services, it added.

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