TORONTO-Canadian vendors are seeking more cooperation among carriers to promote interoperability. That’s the message from a wireless conference hosted Tuesday by BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto.
Mike Lazaridis, Research in Motion (RIM) co-chief executive officer (CEO), said, “The most important thing for us in inter-carrying roaming for data services such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and 1x, in terms of carriers, it’s just interoperability-making sure that one network infrastructure works with another and, in a lot of cases, works together in the same network.”
GPRS is the mobile standard used by Rogers AT&T and Microcell. Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility operate 1xRTT over CDMA networks.
“We don’t need 14 different gateways for messaging. We don’t need multiple ways of provisioning services, buying software, things of that sort,” said PalmSource President and CEO David Nagel.
Nagel said carriers haven’t provided a decent roadmap to move more wireless technology into the enterprise market. “It has very little to do with technology. It has to do with how the carriers organize themselves and their own systems integrators and buyers. There really is no effective channel for the most part for wireless carriers in the enterprise,” he said.
