The wireless industry was the one that created the design of WAP or the Wireless Application Protocol. WAP was created so that wireless clients like mobile phone users can access and view internet contents through their hand-held device like a PDA (personal digital assistant) and mobile phones.

WAP is a protocol designed for micro browsers and enables the creation of web applications for mobile devices. A micro browser is a piece of software which makes minimal requirements from hard drive, CPU and memory and moreover can display information on a mark-up language called WML or the Wireless Mark-up Language. WAP is composed of a WML language specification, a WMLScript specification, and a Wireless Telephony Application Interface (WTAI) specification and is based on Internet standards.

A website viewable via a WAP-enabled mobile phone is called a WAP site. Certain hand-held devices, though they offer full web browsers, still make the browsing of regular websites through a mobile device less fulfilling because of the need to zoom, scroll and swipe (for touch-screen phones). However, WAP sites, which are designed specifically for a hand-held device, can adjust to any mobile device’s small screen making web browsing through mobile phones uncomplicated.

WAP sites are perfect for today’s developing world because of the convenience and ubiquity of mobile devices. About 50% of the world’s population has a mobile phone subscription and since 2007, there were about 3.3 billion of these subscriptions globally, which is safe to say that there at least four times more active mobile phones than there are internet subscription.

It is expected there will be over 800 million wireless users around the world by the year 2002. In the long run, all hand-held devices shall be equipped with WAP as standard issue.

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