• Orange launched the UK's first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 1.1 handset, (the Nokia 7110e) in November 1999 enabling Orange customers to access the Orange range of multi media services, as well as a multitude of internet content written especially for WAP. There is now a range of WAP handsets, available from "free" and upwards, and WAP is now available to prepay customers.
• WAP access via Orange is charged at 10p per minute at all times.
• Or on Just Talk prepay calls are charged at 10p per minute weekdays and 5p at weekends.
• NEW: If you use a lot of WAP then take Orange's great value Access Pack for an additional £4 per month this gives you virtually unlimited WAP access: either 200 minutes dial-up access or 10Mb GPRS access per month.

What is WAP?

Wireless Application Protocol is the de facto world-wide standard for delivering internet type content to digital mobile phones and other wireless devices. It is pronounced WAP, as in "tap", not "top". :-)

Orange Multimedia Services: just a highlight of some of the services available!

• NEWS: UK, foreign and business news from ITN and Sky News
• SPORTS: sports news from the Press Association and Sporting Life
• WEATHER: from the Met Office
• TRAVEL: traffic and travel information: fully comprehensive mobile traffic and travel service, providing access to UK road, rail and tube information.
• ENTERTAINMENT: comprehensive nationwide listings for theatre, comedy, cinema, gigs and TV - searchable by region from Flextech's SceneOne website
• BUSINESS DIRECTORIES: access to Thomson Directories' database of local services, such as education, entertainment, financial & legal, food & dining, health & medical, home & garden, motoring, music & audio, sport & leisure and travel & tourism
• SKIING: Snow reports from the Ski Club of Great Britain
• LOOT: Secondhand buying and selling of items with Loot
• LASTMINUTE.COM: last minute travel offers
• PARKER'S GUIDE: secondhand car price guide
• SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE SHORT-TERM CONTENT: e.g. Bafta Awards, Big Brother, Q Awards, Formula One, etc.

• E-Mail: Check any regular email account you have with WAP, follow this link for more info! Mail And News

• Genie, Yahoo!, Excite, BBC, Virgin Radio, iii, and many many more expanding all the time - just tap in the address on your WAP phone
• and don't forget the Freedom Phones WAP site, for many cool links: wap.wirefree.com/
• share prices, weather, games, entertainment listings, UK phone-book, train times, horoscopes, TV listings, currency conversion - and even a WAP search engine to help you find what you want!

In the not too distant future you will be able to use your mobile to order and pay for a wide range of services:

• cinema, concert and theatre tickets
• books and music
• mobile phones and accessories from Freedom Phones
• banking services currently under trial with Orange.

etc...

How much does it cost?

• WAP access via Orange is charged at 10p per minute at all times.
• Or on Just Talk prepay calls are charged at 10p per minute weekdays and 5p at weekends.
• NEW: If you use a lot of WAP then take Orange's great value Access Pack for an additional £4 per month this gives you virtually unlimited WAP access: either 200 minutes dial-up access or 10Mb GPRS access per month.

Visit our WAP site! program the following URL as a bookmark and then hit the Navi-Roller:

wap.wirefree.com/ or www.wirefree.com/wap/index.wml
 
• The World's first mobile phone dealership WAP site!
• Links to WAP email, a search engine and more interesting sites

WAP Phones:

All phones currently available on Orange now include WAP browsers!

How to set up a Nokia 7110e or 6210e to access WAP through an alternative dial-up provider:

Simply enter the WAP address in the phone's bookmark listing and just select, you now don't need to use the "other sites" option, as Orange have taken the sensible decision to use just one portal with full and open internet access.

You can also use third party services to send and receive email using WAP. To do this you need to firstly sign up with Mail and News from a web browser, then proceed to our WAP homepage for the next step!

You can also access the internet through your own ISP, although this is likely to be more problematic than using Orange's dialup and gateway:

Select Menu 10-3 (Services - Settings), and choose one of four of the empty "sets" - do not replace your Orange standard settings!

"Edit" this setting entering the following details:

Homepage: www.wirefree.com/wap/index.wml

Connection Type: Continuous

Connection Security: Off

Bearer: Data

Dial-up Number: your ISP's regular dial-up number (POP)

IP address: The internet address of a WAP gateway, NOT a DNS server or your own IP address. Currently we know of two "open" gateways: 195.58.110.201 and 193.113.200.195 (many thanks to WAP freaks for this - see their site for more details and other settings)

Authentication Type: Normal

Data Call Type: Analogue mostly, unless you are using a digital POP with UUNET or Demon in which case select ISDN

Data Call Speed: 9600 (14400 will work late in 2000 hopefully)

User Name: your own ISP dial-up login name

Password: your own ISP dial-up password

Please note we do not guarantee any of these setting will work!!! Furthermore neither ourselves nor Orange will be able to offer any technical support. If you get stuck though please send an email, we will respond if we can.

Please let us know what you think of our WAP site, our public guestbook is here.

For more info see WAP freaks

What have we left off?

If you want us to cover something in detail here about WAP please drop us an email and we will investigate!
sales@freedom-mobiles.co.uk