WISP already supports Windows 3x, 9x, 2K, NT, PocketPC, and CE, as well as Mac OS 8.0 and Palm. When I spoke to Percy Bhathena, he was most enthusiastic about business services. He is working on being able to deal with a top-flight VPN so that mobile users could print to their office printer, download files from a desktop while on the road, and share files with people back at the home base. He is also working with other companies' proprietary software. For example, he is working with a company that sells and cleans uniforms.
Every item is coded and can be tracked from pickup through cleaning to delivery.
The company has a wireless device in every delivery van so that items are scanned into a database at pickup and delivery is also recorded. Since some deliveries are out of the network, WISP developed software that would recognize when the wireless device was outside the network, and upload data when the device returned to the network Another new idea is using the CDPD connection for the return line on a Hughes DirecPC network. This provides satellite-level download speeds. Apparently it started with a cold call to Bell Atlantic Mobile, followed by over a year of negotiation. But that deal launched the business.