A technology designed to provide users of mobile terminal with rapid and efficient access to the Internet.
It is a widely used set of protocols used on wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. It operates much like the hypertext transfer protocol and standardizes the manner in which wireless devices are able to access parts of the Internet, such as e-mail and the Web.
A standard designed to allow the content of the Internet to be viewed on the screen of a mobile device such as mobile phones, personal organisers and pagers. WAP also overcomes the processing limitation of such devices. The information and services available are stripped down to their basic text format.
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is the first widely accepted standard for Internet services over mobile phone networks. It is capable of displaying "mini web sites," which look simple when compared with normal web sites but which already provide a variety of powerful services.
Serves as the global standard for developing applications over wireless networks by providing wireless devices with secure access to text-based information, including Web pages, chat, and e-mail.
one step up from Short Messaging Service (SMS). You can use WAP to look up information, book and buy tickets, and order and pay for goods from a mobile handset. The expectation is that mobile internet will be as fast as PC internet, once wireless access can run fast enough.