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  2. Wireless Application Protocol - Wikipedia

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    WAP has URLs which can be typed into an address bar which is similar to URLs in HTTP. Relative URLs in WAP are used for navigating within a deck, and Absolute URLs in WAP are used for navigating between decks. [9] WAP was designed to operate in bandwidth-constrained networks by using data compression before transmitting data to users. [11]

  3. WAP billing - Wikipedia

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    WAP billing is a mechanism for consumers to buy content from Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) sites that is charged directly to their mobile phone bill. It is an alternative payment mechanism to debit or credit cards and premium SMS for billing.

  4. Wireless Markup Language - Wikipedia

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    WML decks are stored on an ordinary web server configured to serve the text/vnd.wap.wml MIME type in addition to plain HTML and variants. The WML cards when requested by a device are accessed by a bridge ( WAP gateway ), which sits between mobile devices and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy .

  5. General Packet Radio Service - Wikipedia

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    At the time of introduction it offered for the first time [b] seamless mobile data transmission using packet data for an "always-on" connection (eliminating the need to "dial-up"), [3] providing improved Internet access for web, email, WAP services, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). [4]

  6. List of telephony terminology - Wikipedia

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    Call originator - (or calling party, caller or A-party) a person or device that initiates a telephone call by dialling a telephone number.; Call waiting - a system that notifies a caller of another incoming telephone call by sounding a sound in the earpiece.

  7. Mobile browser - Wikipedia

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    The first deployment of a mobile browser on a mobile phone was probably in 1997 when Unwired Planet (later to become Openwave) put their "UP.Browser" on AT&T handsets to give users access to HDML content. [4] [5] A British company, STNC Ltd., developed a mobile browser (HitchHiker) in 1997 that was intended to present the entire device UI.

  8. Unstructured Supplementary Service Data - Wikipedia

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    USSD can be used for WAP browsing, prepaid callback service, mobile-money services, location-based content services, menu-based information services, and as part of configuring the phone on the network. [1] The service does not require a messaging app, and does not incur charges. [2] USSD messages are up to 182 alphanumeric characters long.

  9. WAP gateway - Wikipedia

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    A WAP gateway sits between mobile devices using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy.This translates pages into a form suitable for the mobiles, for instance using the Wireless Markup Language (WML).