EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
According to The Strategis Group, there will be more than 530 million wireless subscribers by the year 2001. New estimates report that the number of wireless subscribers will break the one billion mark by 2004, and a « substantial portion of the phones sold that year will have multimedia capabilities. » These multimedia capabilities include the ability to retrieve Email, and push and pull information from the Internet. In order to guide the development of these exciting new applications, the leaders of the wireless telecommunications industry formed the Wireless Application Protocol Forum (www.wapforum.org).
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that have an intuitive user interface. Ultimately, wireless subscribers benefit by gaining the power of information access in the palm of their hand.
The WAP Forum has published a global wireless protocol specification, based on existing Internet standards such as XML and IP, for all wireless networks. The WAP specification is developed and supported by the wireless telecommunication community so that the entire industry and most importantly, its subscribers, can benefit from a single, open specification.
THE WAP FORUM
The Wireless Application Protocol Forum is an industry group dedicated to the goal of enabling sophisticated telephony and information services on handheld wireless devices.These devices include mobile telephones, pagers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other wireless terminals. Recognizing the value and utility of the World Wide Web architecture, the WAP Forum has chosen to align its technology closely with the Internet and the Web. The WAP specification extends and leverages existing technologies, such as digital data networking standards, and Internet technologies, such as IP, HTTP, XML,SSL, URLs, scripting and other content formats.
THE GOALS OF WAP FORUM
The WAP Forum has the following goals:
• To bring Internet content and advanced data services to wireless phones and other wireless terminals.
• To create a global wireless protocol specification that works across all wireless network technologies.
• To enable the creation of content and applications that scale across a wide range of wireless bearer networks and device types.
• To embrace and extend existing standards and technology wherever possible and appropriate.
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