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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (16950)	11/29/2001 8:29:54 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

The WAP Forum was formed after a US network operator Omnipoint issued a tender for the supply of mobile information services in early 1997. It received several responses from different suppliers using proprietary techniques for delivering the information such as Smart Messaging from Nokia and HDML from Openwave (formerly Phone.com). Omnipoint informed the tender responders that it would not accept a proprietary approach and recommended that that various vendors get together to explore defining a common standard. After all, there was not a great deal of difference between the different approaches, which could be combined and extended to form a powerful standard. These events were the initial stimulus behind the development of the Wireless Application Protocol, with Ericsson and Motorola joining Nokia and Openwave (formerly Phone.com) as the founder members of the WAP Forum.