22.5 WAP Forum

22.5 WAP Forum

The WAP Forum is the industry association comprised of more than 200 members that has developed the de facto worldwide standard for wireless information and telephony services on digital mobile telephones and other wireless terminals. The primary goal of the WAP Forum is to bring together companies from all segments of the wireless industry value-chain to ensure product interoperability and growth of the wireless market. WAP Forum members represent more than 95 percent of the global handset market carriers, with more than 100 million subscribers, leading infrastructure providers, software developers, and other organizations providing solutions to the wireless industry (http://www.wapforum.org/).