Europe’s largest mobile telecom network operators have launched a new company aimed at developing standards to accelerate customer take-up of mobile data services. The company, based on “Open Mobile Terminal Platform“, will be called OMTP Limited, and based in London. More details are on the new company website.
The founding members of this initiative are mmO2, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, SMART Communications, Telefónica Móviles, TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile), T-Mobile and Vodafone. Amena, Hutchinson/3, KPN, One Austria, SFR and Telenor have expressed interest to join.
A plethora of user interfaces for mobile data services, which include wireless Internet, picture messaging and mobile e-mail, currently exist. The new alliance will look to pressure handset makers and mobile software developers to guarantee compatibility with industry standards.
The company will also look to improve interoperability between second- and third-generation handsets and is initially likely to support operating systems for mobile phones based on the Java programming language.
If you ask me, it sounds like a pressure group to browbeat handset manufacturers to comply to common standards, which is not necesarily a bad thing…
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