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Wireless Application Protocol
Also known as WAP
technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network
Key facts
- Merged into
- Open Mobile Alliance
- Legal status
- Defunct
- Website
- wapforum.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-07-06)
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Travel news content shown on the WAP browser on a Nokia 3650 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an obsolete technical standard for accessing information over a mobile cellular network. Introduced in 1999, WAP allowed users with compatible mobile devices to browse content such as news, weather and sports scores provided by mobile network operators, specially designed for the limited capabilities of a mobile device. The Japanese i-mode system offered a competing wireless data standard.