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This piece of history is recorded in the book published by McGraw-Hill Australia that I co-authored titled, "sharetrading@home.anytime.anywhere" (see http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780074711057.html).
The following is an excerpt:
Australia gives the internet mobility
However, it took another technology breakthrough to bring to reality the promises of the Internet of information anywhere, any time. This technology breakthrough took place in Sydney, Australia in the offices of the mobile phone company, Vodafone Australia.
On the dull Monday afternoon of 26 September 1994, the world's first GSM mobile fax was received at about 4.30pm from a laptop computer connected to a Nokia 2110 GSM mobile phone in transit on a suburban Sydney train. This spelt the dawn of the "Mobile Information age". The speed of the fax transmission was 9600bps, which is about three times slower than the speed of a normal phone fax transmission.
About two weeks later, the same laptop computer with the same mobile phone was connected to publicly demonstrate access to the Internet via CompuServe's online service from a mobile phone and download a full-colour weather map of Australia. It worked. The other digital mobile phone to be used for the same demonstration was the Siemens S3. This also worked.
Shortly after, Vodafone's global head office in the UK released the world's first digital mobile phone fax and data service. A journalist for one of London's top newspapers, present as the launch of England's National Lottery, took advantage of the new service to meet the paper's first-edition deadline of 6.30am. Having used a digital camera to take a picture of the event at 6.10am on a Monday morning, the journalist immediately hooked up his digital mobile phone to his laptop computer, made a call using the Vodafone service and sent the digital picture electronically via e-mail.
The e-mail made it to the newspaper's central computer system just minutes before the deadline. Thus, the picture was used in the paper's first edition as the journalist had intended. "It was a great achievement. Without the electronic camera and the Vodafone Data service, the picture just wouldn't have made the paper. We are at the dawn of a new age," the journalist commented.
This breakthrough brought the Internet to the screens of personal communications electronic mobile devices and instigated the development of the Internet-enabled mobile phone, the WAP mobile phone. Mobile phone engineers at Nokia, in Finland, worked together with other members of the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) Forum (including engineers and computer programmers from Ericsson, Motorola, Microsoft, IBM, Compaq and Toshiba) to complete their development of the Mobile Internet traffic-management program standard, dubbed "WAP". Consequently, they launched the world's first WAP mobile phone in 2000 and, in essence, freed the Internet from being deskbound. This time the data transmission speed was 115Kbps, that is, around twelve times faster than the first GSM mobile fax transmission.
Once again, Australia featured as one of the first markets in the world to trial the new WAP mobile phones by deploying the country's first mobile banking service thanks to Telstra and Westpac."
The Vodafone team that made it all happen was Lester Pearson, Vodafone UK's Manager for Telecommunications and Computers, who was in Sydney at the time training up the local engineers; Sujeet Kumar, Vodafone Australia's Telecommunications Development Engineer; myself as Vodafone Australia's Value-Added Services Product Manager; and to make sure it worked on Nokia...Nokia Australia's Data Products Manager, James Campbell.