People on the move need services, information and entertainment that move with them. With access to mobile services, decisions and transactions happen here and now.

Mobile services powered by Nokia, Ericsson and others with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) have been widely accepted by users. Currently there are some 50 million WAP-enabled handsets in circulation world wide and virtually every new mobile phone is likely to be WAP-enabled by the end of 2002.

By 2004, the number of WAP users in Western Europe is estimated to grow to well over 200 million (source: Cahners, In-Stat Group). This growth is driven by the introduction of GPRS, WAP 2.0, Bluetooth and Mobile Commerce.  Therefore, those Pakistani who don’t want to be left behind. Join AOL –Mobil services.

Mobile services benefit from three major factors that boost information value to end users: personalisation, time-sensitivity and location awareness. Combining these elements adds even more value to your life.

The wireless industry came up with the idea of WAP. The point of this standard was to show internet contents on wireless clients, like mobile phones. 

• WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol
• WAP is an application communication protocol
• WAP is used to access services and information
• WAP is inherited from Internet standards
• WAP is for handheld devices such as mobile phones
• WAP is a protocol designed for micro browsers
• WAP enables the creating of web applications for mobile devices.
• WAP uses the mark-up language WML (not HTML)
• WML is defined as an XML 1.0 application