NTT DoCoMo intends to contribute actively to establishing protocol specifications, and is inaugurating the development of PDAs which have adopted WAP. This will improve the current wireless communications environment while allowing PDAs and other mobile terminal users to browse Internet contents more comfortably in a wireless environment.
Dr. Shuichi Shindo, Senior Vice President, Mobile Computing Business Department of NTT DoCoMo said, "NTT DoCoMo has been actively participating in various global standardization activities of telecommunications industry such as IMT-2000 which is currently promoted by ITU. As a part of such global activities, we are contributing to the establishment of specifications for data protocols. We think that WAP is a very strong candidate, and are conducting a series of related discussions with other operators and manufacturers that support WAP at the WAP Forum. We plan to offer the protocol to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an Internet standardization body, and have pleasure in contributing to the protocol standardization efforts."
Note:
* WAP is a wireless protocol that was introduced in April 1998 at the WAP Forum for network connections in a mobile communication environment.
** The WAP Forum was jointly established by Nokia (Finland), Ericsson (Sweden), Motorola (the United States), and Unwired Planet (the United States) in December 1997. The organization's aim is to establish specifications for WAP so as to facilitate comfortable use of Internet contents via wireless communications terminals such as mobile phones.
