"Having initially passed through a phase of hype FOTA is now witnessing commercial success, and is being used by both handset manufacturers and mobile operators. Commercial firmware updates have been undertaken in Japan and the US. InnoPath announced that KDDI had successfully updated tens of thousands of OTA-enabled handsets since July 2006. In Europe, BenQ Siemens reports 12,000 firmware OTA updates per month, and in Asia, Red Bend reports that a mobile operator delivered 300,000 FOTA updates in one month to two handset models in the field.
Operator usage of FOTA has been more varied. FOTA update capability has been deployed in Japan by DoCoMo, KDDI and Vodafone KK (now SoftBank Mobile) starting in 2003 and in the US with Sprint since January 2005. In Europe, Telefonica and Three are planning to deploy FOTA update capability by early 2007."
