Over-The-Air Provisioning Of WAP Settings
To simplify configuring WAP settings in a number of phones, all settings can be sent as an SMS message to each phone. This makes it easy for an operator, a service provider or a company to distribute settings for Internet/Intranet, and WAP, without having to configure each phone man- ually. This also makes it easy to upgrade the services provided to the users, without the need for users to perform any manual configuration.
•The OTA configuration message is distributed via SMS
•The setup information is a binary encoded XML message, according to WBXML. To receive information about OTA specifications, please contact your local Ericsson representa- tive for consumer products. A configurator that utilizes OTA provisioning can be tested on the Ericsson Mobile Internet
•The user is not alerted about new settings until the ongoing browsing session ends. Further- more, settings are not changed during an ongoing browsing session
•The necessary user interaction is limited to receiving and accepting/rejecting the configura- tion message, and selecting which WAP profile to allocate the settings to
•Security can be handled using a keyword identifier displayed on the screen as a shared secret between the SMS sender and the receiver. It is important that the user has a way to verify that the configuration message is authentic
Configuration Of WAP Settings
To perform the WAP configuration of a single phone it is suggested to use the
A manual configuration is made using the menu system in the phone. This is described in the User’s Guide.
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