"The ability to update phones, smartphones and BlackBerries over the air is fairly recent. Verizon started pushing Firmware Over the Air (FOTA) updates in October of last year, using backhaul provided by InnoPath, a global device management solutions provider.
InnoPath has deliverd FOTA for hundreds of thousands of feature phones for Verizon, says David Ginsburg, Vice President of Marketing for InnoPath... However, RIM has its own [proprietary] system for the Over the Air updates which does not support the OMA-DM (Open Mobile Alliance Device Management) format that InnoPath uses."
