PLEASE NOTE:All articles are copyright but you can link to this page by copying and pasting the html code EXACTLY as shown. Thank you. <a href="http://www.1st-4-cheap-mobile-phones.co.uk/articles/art.shtml" > <b>Mobile Phone and Cell Phone Articles</b></a> The Cost Of Mobile Phone Loss And Theft by Colin Weir http://www.simstore.com Mobile phone penetration has been nothing short of spectacular with global numbers now in excess of 1 billion handsets. The convergence of computing and telecommunications will drive this number even higher. People are no longer just making voice calls with their phones: SMS and very soon MMS usage is also very high. As handsets become more prevalent and capable, people are carrying a lot more personal data on their phones; today contact information, tomorrow calendaring and portfolio information with PDA type applications. At the same time and due to the nature of the devices (small and valuable) handsets undergo a high degree of theft, loss and breakage. Research around the world estimates annual handset disaster at about 9.5%. Not only is this a problem for the handset owner but also for the application providers. Without a reliable platform the uptake of future applications will be limited. SimStore has been established to provide disaster recovery services to handsets. Initially this enables device owners to backup and manage address book information on their phones, via SMS and a WWW interface such that in time of disaster that information can be readily restored once the owner has replaced their handset. The company was established by Colin Weir to: - Provide a platform for exploiting the huge uptake in mobile phones and provide application services to the forthcoming 3G infrastructure - Provide an immediate service to 2G handset owners that enables them to backup data held on their phone such as address book information and restore it in the event of disaster Dave Durbin, a business colleague and friend from a previous and successful internet start-up in the UK joined the investigation and together with a little bit of pixie dust and a great deal of graft have delivered the service you are now using. The Company is in the business of providing horizontal services for wireless devices: Mobile phones, PDAs etc. With the sale of wireless devices having already overtaken PCs, these untethered devices will be the major mechanism by which users will connect to the network in its broadest sense. From retail to corporate users the world is becoming unwired. As with any emerging technology, any successful service must make the user's life better and easier and must do so in a way which is reliable and easy to use. The horizontal solutions and services that SimStore offer are oriented around providing reliability and ease of use. Today SimStore is focussed on providing disaster recovery and synchronisation services. In this environment users have address book information that: - May be lost when the phone is lost or stolen - May duplicate or overlap with other identity information held by the user and gain value from synchronisation. In Australia it is estimated that there are about 12 million handset owners with an official 100,000 having been stolen in the last year and an estimated 1 million broken or otherwise made inoperable. Mobile devices are hot products for theft and due to their size are easily lost or broken. This data is often not otherwise known or stored, arriving via a phone call or text message. When the user has his handset replaced the data on the original phone is not recoverable; it was lost with the phone. Alternatively if it is stored somewhere else such as on a piece of paper or even electronically it requires re-entering onto the replacement device. By using the service provided by the company, on re-establishing their mobile service a simple click of a button, or an SMS request to the service enables the customer to have all of their data back on their phone and usable inside of 10 seconds. Once the disaster recovery technology and service is in place the Company will use their knowledge of the market gained during this time to investigate additional application and service opportunities within this market. [CaRP] XML error: mismatched tag at line 13 |
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