Telecom Unites Over Apps
posted Saturday Feb 20, 2010 by Scott Ertz
To start out the Mobile World Congress right, 24 of the largest mobile operators in the world, representing a total of 3 billion customers, have come together to create an open industry platform for app developers through the Wholesale Applications Community.
The companies include China Mobile and Vodafone, the world's largest operators (almost 1 billion subscribers just to themselves), Deutsche Telekom (which operates T-Mobile USA), Verizon Wireless (partially owned by Vodafone and now owns Alltel) and Sprint Nextel, covering all of the important US carriers.
In addition to the largest players in the carrier world, the group also has the support of 3 of the important handset manufacturers: Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG. The WAC hopes to have a standard for working cross-platform within the next year.
