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The Players
- Lots of hardware and software vendors (of course)
- Two main industry consortia:
- Open Mobile Alliance (OMA):
- integrates a number of older consortia
- WAP Forum, SyncML Initiative, …
- specifies interoperable technical specification for Mobile devices
- integrates a number of older consortia
- 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
- specifies technical specification for 3rd Generation GSM networks
- roughly: 3GPP is the radio, OMA is the application level
- but there are overlaps
- they try to cooperate and synchronize
- Open Mobile Alliance (OMA):
- Java is very well established on Mobiles
- a technology to be aware of
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