Origins of Bluetoothweb

What is Bluetoothweb ?
How it all began...
The value of a global online industry community
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What is Bluetoothweb ?
Bluetoothweb is provided by WTIS Ltd (Wireless Telecommunication Information & Services). It has been created upon the same concepts as its sister service DECTweb - it is designed to provide a global community and a freely accessible resource of  relevant, timely and useful information relating to events, products and services involved in the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology.  Bluetoothweb offers a forum for marketing, engineering and other Bluetooth professionals in the telecommunications, consumer electronics and other application industry businesses to interact and obtain specific information.   This has been done by creating a member base for the website from which Bluetoothweb is able to offer a range of information services including monthly newsletters. You can join the member base by clicking here. 
    
Bluetoothweb also have a number of ideas that we hope to include in the future to enhance the existing service notably a  members-only area of the site, job opportunities and people available, message forums, and surveys. Please e-mail us if you have any further suggestions or would particularly be interested in any of the above ideas.

How it all began..
The seeds of Bluetoothweb were back in the late 1990's and, like some of Bluetooth's core technology itself, are related to DECT - digital enhanced cordless telecommunications.  At a conference in 1997 the need for an Internet based community and information service for the digital cordless telecommunications industry was identified and out this was born the predecessor of Bluetoothweb, DECTweb - which was launched in 1998 as a free service for the industry. By the start of 2001, DECTweb was attracting around a quarter of a million hits per month and had a well-established established community in over 50 countries signed up to receive its regular free e-news updates.  Several major industry players - such as Siemens, National Semiconductors, Philips, etc - were active sponsors, as well other less well known companies.

With the advent of Bluetooth, many of the originating companies of the DECT technology - including those mentioned above - moved across to also develop and address the Bluetooth market. With the rapid growth of interest in Bluetooth, and the creation of commercial websites by the conference and advertising  industries, for some considerable time we felt that there was perhaps no requirement for a site such as Bluetoothweb, that these others sites were providing all that was needed.

The Value of Community
However, experience has shown that an effective global web community comprises more than has yet been found on these other sites .  It was becoming increasingly apparent that these other sites were providing a valuable, but only partial, solution.  Thus it was in summer 2001, at last, that the Bluetoothweb community finally came into being.