For Immediate Release:
Tuesday
February 6th, 2007, 7am PST
SetNet Offers Free Safe Haven To Wireless E-mail
Providers
Challenged with Patent Infringement Lawsuits
Burlingame, Calif.
- Tuesday February 6th, 2007 – SetNet Corp., the largest wireless e-mail
provider, with a peak of 6 million subscribers, reveals it will provide its
service for free to all mobile phone users worldwide.
In doing so, SetNet
offers
a safe haven against patent infringement
lawsuits.
SetNet Freedom Mail
will be offered, for free, to end users, paid by non intrusive ads. It will
also remove the “postage stamps” on wireless e-mails currently paid to patent
holders by mobile carriers. This will be saving billions of dollars to
consumers when managing their emails over their phone.
SetNet wireless e-mail
platform was created in 1994 and deployed from 2003 to 2006 on Vodafone Live
and other global mobile carriers earlier. Reaching an impressive 6 million
subscriber figure Setnet is by far the largest and most adopted wireless
e-mail provider to date.
In 2002 HP was contracted by SetNet to deploy and support its
wireless e-mail platform worldwide.
SetNet technology
constitutes “prior-art” over patents claimed thus offering a technology
alternative free of potential litigation to wireless e-mail providers.
Prior art is all information that has been made available to the
public in any form before a given date. If an invention has been described in
prior art, a patent on that invention is not valid (1).
“SetNet is taking
action in light of current litigation over wireless e-mail which has spured
questions about ethical use of patents.” said Nick Fodor, chief executive
officer of SetNet. “Freedom Mail will liberate wireless email from expensive
and spurious litigation driven by
very
few patent owners for
the
sole purpose of dominating global wireless e-mail
communications.”
Freedom Mail will enable wireless subscribers to retrieve their
current personal e-mails from major Internet Service Providers (including
Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail) on a wide range of mass market handsets starting
at entry level. Freedom Mail is expected to launch second half of 2007.
Ken
Dulaney, vice president of mobile computers at Gartner, predicts that
by 2016, every cell phone will offer easy access to
e-mail.
Information about Freedom Mail will be available at
http://www.freedomail.com. Questions, comments and suggestions can be posted
on Freedom Mail blog at blog.freedomail.com
About SetNet
SetNet Corp, founded in 1994, is
headquartered in Coral Gables,
Florida. SetNet wireless e-mail technology has been
available to more than 6 million Vodafone mobile subscribers on Vodafone Live handsets in France (2). The company technology constitutes prior-art over
patents filed after that time. SetNet Freedom Mail, which is expected to
launch mid 2007, will be a free service that will enable wireless subscribers
to retrieve their current e-mails from webmail services such as Yahoo Mail,
Hotmail and Gmail, independently from their network carrier.
Reference:
(1) Wikipedia, Prior
Art,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
(2)
SFR
announcement,
http://www.apropos.sfr.fr/html/espacepresse/communiques/detail.php?wid=10909859074542048D0B38D
Contact:
Public questions can be posted on:
http://blog.freedomail.com
Press inquiries to be sent by email to press@freedomail.com
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dwzgght_7cjgdbv&revision=_published
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