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WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL FORUM MEMBERSHIP CONVENES IN LONDON 180 Telecoms/Internet Industry Leaders Meet to Enhance Mobile Internet Standard As WAP Commercial Deployments Commence in Europe, U.S. London � (15 July September 1999) � More than 180 leading technology companies from across the world are gathered here this week at the members meeting of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum (www.wapforum.org). WAP is the de-facto global standard for providing Internet communications and advanced telephony services on digital mobile phones, pagers, personal digital assistants and other wireless terminals. WAP Forum members are meeting to advance the development of WAP technology and ensure that users of low power, low memory portable devices can securely access and instantly interact with Internet/intranet information and other forms of wireless data. The WAP Forum joins together leaders from today�s fastest growing technology sectors � the Internet and wireless communications � including top manufacturers of mobile phones and PDAs, network operators, wireless infrastructure providers, computer and software vendors, e-commerce providers and content developers. The Forum�s charter is to bring together all companies providing solutions to the wireless industry to ensure interoperability and growth of wireless Internet-based services. In June, the Forum released the WAP Version 1.1 specification, which is enabling the rapid commercial deployment of WAP-ready products worldwide. With WAP technology, consumer and business users of wireless devices have near anytime, anywhere access to mobile media services such as:
"This is the most exciting time in the WAP Forum�s history," said Gregory Williams, board chairman of the WAP Forum. "The close cooperation of this organisation has culminated in a rich offering of exciting new services for all wireless consumers. It will be extremely gratifying for us all to see the fruits of our efforts come to life in the explosion of WAP product launches over the next few months. However, the road is just beginning. Our continued membership growth will allow us to improve and enhance WAP into the next millennium." Membership Growth Rate Increases Due in part to a new Associate Member category, more than 60 new members have joined the WAP Forum in the last three months. The new category is designed to enable content and service providers, application developers, tool vendors and non-infrastructure industry suppliers greater participation in the Forum and development of WAP. To follow is a list of companies that have recently joined the Forum (note: a full list of member companies is available on the WAP Forum Web site at www.wapforum.org):
About the WAP Forum The WAP Forum is an industry association that has developed the de-facto world standard for wireless information and telephony services on digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals. Handset manufacturers representing 95 per cent of the world market across all technologies have committed to shipping WAP-enabled devices. Carriers representing more than 100 million subscribers worldwide have joined WAP. These commitments will put 10�s of millions of WAP-browser-enabled products in consumer hands by the end of 2000. WAP Forum membership is open to all industry participants. For further details on the Forum and its members, please visit the Forum�s Web site at www.wapforum.org. The Web site also includes a downloadable version of WAP V1.1.# # # All company, brand and product names may be trademarks that are the sole property of their respective owners. All Rights Reserved.
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