Village WAPsite
WAP site address: http://buzzed.co.uk/wap/rolleston

Villagers on the move will now be able to keep in touch with all the latest community news thanks to the latest advance in mobile technology. In March 2003 Rolleston became the first village in East Staffordshire to launch a service that brings village news direct to mobile phones. The service uses the latest WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology which enables people with an Internet facility on their mobile phone to access the Rolleston WAP site.

Hopefully the WAP service will become just as popular as the village website - perhaps more so - as more people tend to have mobile phones than computers. There will be diary dates, news flashes and other bits of information contained in the site. The WAP site means that anybody all over the world with a WAP-enabled phone can access the latest Rolleston gossip! Please let me know what you think - ideas welcome.

If, like me, you have not got a WAP-enabled phone, it can usually be seen using this special WAP viewer (NB. Please try again later if server is not working) - it cannot be accessed directly from a computer. 

Read more about it in the 19 April 2003 issue of the Burton Mail.

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