WAP to be a World-Wide Winner
- Poor user experiences, high latency and low data
rates were some of the factors behind WAP's negative start but WAP usage in
the UK has now topped two billion page impressions each month, this was due to several factors, including:
. High resolution colour screens with faster data rates had improved the customer experience.
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- Wireless Application Protocol(WAP)
- WAP is an open international standard for applications that use wireless
communication.
Its principal application is to enable access to the Internet
from a mobile phone or PDA.
A WAP browser is to provide all of the basic services of a computer based
web browser but simplified to operate within the restrictions of a mobile
phone. WAP is now the protocol used for the majority of the world's mobile
internet sites, known as WAP sites. The Japanese i-mode system is currently
the only other major competing wireless data protocol.
Mobile internet sites, or WAP sites, are websites written in, or dynamically
converted to, WML (Wireless Markup Language) and accessed via the WAP
browser.
Before the introduction of WAP, service providers had extremely limited
opportunities to offer interactive data services. Interactive data
applications are required to support now commonplace activities such as:
email by mobile phone
tracking of stock market prices
sports results
news headlines
music downloads
