CANNES, France-Several well-known firms in the Internet and wireless industries have come together to form the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum with the intent to accelerate the deployment of open, Internet-based standards for mobile wireless devices.
The group said it hopes to provide a venue for service providers and suppliers to work together to identify and resolve issues surrounding the development of key specifications and enable early implementation of IP wireless networks.
Founding members number 42 and include such notables as Bell Atlantic Mobile, Cisco Systems, L.M. Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Corp., Nortel Networks, Qualcomm Inc., Sharp Corp., Sony, Sprint PCS, Sun Microsystems Inc., 3Com Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch plc.
