- From: Sunny Hundal <sandeep@wde.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:26:07 +0000
- To: Ashok GUPTA <A.Gupta@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
- CC: www-mobile@w3.org
You know what, all these movements actually make me wonder about the long term validity of WAP. I heard some rumours about NTT DoCoMo thinking of expanding to the US, and maybe Europe, and personally if they released a phone here on GSM, which could talk to other networks, but had the capabilites that they have in Japan (Nice article in the economist about 3 weeks ago about this), then it would be a no-brainer to buy one. To the consumers, it doesn't matter about the underlying technology, as long the killer apps are there... and I think that all these technologies, and alliances around, and regarding WAP, the whole market is becoming so blurred... hmmmm... sorry about the rant.... I just realised that its actually not a W3C issue... :) Sunny Ashok GUPTA wrote: > > The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum is a new development > which could grow to become an alternative to WAP. > > With founder members such as Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, > IBM, Microsoft, Orange, DDI, Vodaphone Air Touch, Qualcomm, > Sprint, 3Com, Cisco, Sun, Sony, etc etc it brings together a > very wide range of interests - mobile handset and handheld > manufacturers, telcos, consumer electronics, etc ... > > The development of a common IP based reference architecture, > and promotion of a common IP core will, through open specifications > enable the development of an infrastructure suited to integration > of mobile telephony and IP, and new 3G services. > > Checkout http://www.mwif.org > > Ashok Gupta > -- > Dept. Of Computer Science > University College London > > In message <3.0.6.32.20000304023046.00812980@wde.org>, Sandeep Hundal writes: > > > >Are there any alternatives to WAP ? > > > >Out of interest... > > > > > >Sandeep > >
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