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Goals of the Wireless Application Protocol
  • Independent of wireless network standard.
  • Open to all.
  • Will be proposed to the appropriate standards bodies.
  • Applications scale across transport options.
  • Applications scale across device types.
  • Extensible over time to new networks and transports.
    • Applicability

    The Wireless Application Protocol will be applicable to, but not limited to:
  • GSM-900, GSM-1800, GSM-1900
  • CDMA IS-95
  • TDMA IS-136
  • 3G systems - IMT-2000, UMTS, W-CDMA
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      WAP Infrastructure Overview
    WAP Infrastructure
  • WML: Wireless Markup Language - A tag-based display language providing navigational support, data input, hyperlinks, text and image presentation, and forms. A browsing language similar to Internet HTML.
  • HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
  • WTA: Wireless Telephony Application
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