Innovative applications are the business drivers in an exploding mobile market.
Voice, data, and IP applications are increasingly sought after by mobile customers, and just as important, they serve as a means to differentiate operators in highly competitive markets. Siemens provides carriers with the ability to offer personalized customer applications on existing fixed, mobile and IP networks. Intranet, teleworking, home shopping, telelearning, telebanking, information seeking and retrieval, lottery as well as entertainment services will be integrated to offer a universal communications tool for the global citizen at the beginning of the new millennium. The sound base for UMTS multimedia applications is only the beginning of exploiting mobile data capabilities.