In an attempt to reduce the application fragmentation across platforms and operation, carriers are banding together in an attempt to provide more standard for developers.
The Wholesale Applications Community members include: AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Together the operators in the group have about 3 billion subscribers, the GSMA said.
The standard won't be really ready toward the end of this year - or in a more realistic term 2011. Other standard bodies like JIL and BONDI are also trying to address this age old problem of market fragmentation.
