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Abstract
According to industry analysts, the number of Internet
users would exceed the 350 million mark by the turn
of the millennium. These users access the Internet primarily
through wireline channels from PCs. Estimates indicate
that the number of mobile phone users using voice service
is over 300 million subscribers. Mobile phone users
and industry alike feel the need for enhanced data services
like web browsing and e-mail offered by Internet to
the wireline user community. In 1997, Ericsson, Motorola,
Nokia and Unwired Planet (now Phone.com) founded the
WAP Forum to design a common wireless protocol specification
for offering advanced data services. The key goal of
WAP Forum was to create an open protocol specification
for bringing the Internet content to wireless phones
and terminals. Today, a large number of wireless device
manufacturers and mobile network operators are using
the WAP specifications to enhance their product lines
and services. The network operators are effectively
using WAP to increase their revenues and customer base,
at the same time offering a significant value addition
to their subscribers. Wireless Application Protocol
(WAP) is an open license-free specification defined
by an industry group called WAP Forum (http://www.wapforum.org).
WAP Forum has members representing different sections
of wireless and Internet industry like handset vendors,
network operators, infrastructure providers, software
developers, Internet content developers and service
providers. Article further discusses features, Architecture,
Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP), Wireless Transaction
Layer Security (WTLS), Market Potential of the WAP.
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