The quarterly GSA Surveys of Mobile Portal WAP Services have been published since February 2001 and provide an insight to mobile portals, showing services and applications which are available region by region, and with global comparisons. All are available for free download in this area.

Download the mobile portals surveys here.

Surveys are undertaken for GSA by Satama Interactive Oy, Finland. http://www.satama.com/

Special Focus Reports

GSA publishes Special Focus Reports on key topics.

• Current State and Outlook of GPRS in Europe (published October 2002) provides a view of the status and future outlook for GPRS in Europe. The report discusses pre-requisites for successful mobile services, and analyses early examples, including MMS and i-Mode services over GPRS. Service pricing models are included and compared. Download the report here.
• Usability Review of Mobile Portals provides a qualitative assessment of the usability of different types of mobile portals with different device types. It covers a selection of European mobile portals' web and WAP services, with a focus on WAP services. A checklist of usability criteria for best practice is included. Download the document here.

See the associated Press Release here for more details.