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Origins of The Wireless Directory
What is
The Wireless Directory
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How it all began...
The value of a global online industry
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What is The Wireless Directory ?
The Wireless Directory is provided by WTIS Ltd (Wireless Telecommunications Information
& Services). It has been created upon the same concepts as its sister
service DECTweb
- it is designed to provide a global community and a freely
accessible resource of relevant, timely and useful
information relating to events, products and services involved in the Bluetooth
short-range wireless technology. The Wireless Directoryoffers a forum for marketing, engineering and other
Bluetooth professionals in the telecommunications, consumer electronics and
other application industry businesses to interact and obtain specific
information. This has been done by creating a member base for
the website from which The Wireless Directoryis able to offer a range of information services including
regular free e-newsletters. You can join the member base by clicking
here.
How it all began..
The seeds of The Wireless Directorywere back in the late 1990's and, like some of Bluetooth's
core technology itself, are related to DECT - digital enhanced cordless
telecommunications. At a conference in 1997 the need for an Internet based
community and information service for the digital cordless telecommunications
industry was identified and out this was born the predecessor of The Wireless Directory,
DECTweb
- which was launched in 1998 as a free service for the wireless industry. By the start of
2001, DECTweb was
attracting around a quarter of a million hits per month and had a
well-established established community in over 50 countries signed up to
receive its regular free e-news updates. Several major industry players -
such as Siemens, National Semiconductors, Philips, etc - were active sponsors,
as well other less well known companies. Some of these early smaller
sponsors, like RTX Telecom and Inventel, have grown substantially since then
With the advent of Bluetooth, many of the originating
companies of the DECT technology - including those mentioned above - moved
across to also develop and address the Bluetooth market. With the rapid growth
of interest in Bluetooth, and the creation of commercial websites by the
conference and advertising industries, for some considerable time we felt
that there was perhaps no requirement for a site such as The Wireless Directory,
that these others sites were providing all that was needed. However...
The Value of Community
... experience proved that an effective global
web community comprises more than was yet available on these other websites.
It was becoming increasingly apparent that these other sites were providing a
valuable, but only partial, solution. Thus it was in summer 2001, at last,
that the The Wireless Directory
community finally came into being,
initially under the name Bluetoothweb.
The website was rebranded in
summer 2002 to become The
Wireless Directory.
The Wireless Directory
aims
to provide a true global community for the Bluetooth industry, offering an opportunity for
people in the industry to interact, to submit news of new products, conference
reports, new updates etc to inform and educate all; a place where people
involved in Bluetooth - whether technical, commercial or whatever - can locate
information, network and build valuable friendships.
You can help us to achieve this by
supporting
The Wireless Directory
in several ways
f The Wireless Directory
- costs are below normal commercial rates, as the
purpose is simply to cover the costs of providing a service to the industry,
rather than to make huge commercial profits.
You can
send
us information to put up on the site and in news mailings. If it's
not yet on the site, please tell us - it may be old news to you, but it may
be of great interest to others. Thank you
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We do trust that you will find The Wireless Directory
an increasingly useful and valuable resource. Its
value to its users will grow exponentially with the size of the The Wireless Directory
community - as the community grows, and more members submit
news and information, this becomes the content that informs all our members.
It is for this reason that your personal active support is encouraged. Thank you.
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