UMPTIDUMPTI - Anytime, Anywhere, Anybody - UMTS for ALL

It is anticipated that a mobile multimedia terminal will be the preferred personal communications device of the future. The imminent deployment of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) represents the first step in achieving this vision. It is an ideal opportunity to realise the complementary requirement: mobile terminals must be usable by everybody. The concurrent emergence of the Internet as a viable framework for control and management as well as user services provides many exciting new possibilities for integrating state of the art distributed processing environments based on the Internet, leading to the ability to create and deploy new services rapidly and efficiently. The UMPTIDUMPTI project has studied the issues of access and usability for everybody through a focus on users with special requirements. We report on the results of trials of applications designed for this user group and the challenges for integration of the Internet and UMTS.