The company offers news from both of Canada's national newspapers. Each approach has its adherents. When WAP surfers send information wirelessly, they frugally send short chunks of text. Predictive software that guesses at words as they're being typed helps on some phones. Plus, linguistic students take note, a weird short-form text language is developing.
Rejection still hurts, even on a four line text-based monochrome screen.
Back in the grownup world, both Telus, which now owns Clearnet, and Bell Mobility, claim some significant WAP usage numbers in Canada. Telus is getting 12 million page hits a week to their wireless portal. Bell Mobility is getting nine million hits per month to their wireless portal from 385,000 users. The hit-rate is growing by about 25 per cent a month. Telus' usage has doubled since the fall and continues to grow at a double-digit rate each week.