Open Mobile Alliance
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| Abbreviation | OMA |
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| Formation | June 2002 |
| Type | Standards Development Organization |
| Headquarters | San Diego |
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Region served
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Worldwide |
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Membership
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Wireless Vendors, Information Technology Companies, Mobile Operators, Application & Content Providers |
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General Manager
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Seth Newberry |
| Website | www.OpenMobileAlliance.org |
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry.
The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to the proliferation of industry forums each dealing with a few application protocols: WAP Forum (focused on browsing and device provisioning protocols), the Wireless Village (focused on instant messaging and presence), The SyncML Initiative (focused on data synchronization), the Location Interoperability Forum, the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum and the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum. Each of these forums had its bylaws, its decision-taking procedures, its release schedules, and in some instances there was some overlap in the specifications, causing duplication of work. The OMA was created to gather these initiatives under a single umbrella.
Members include traditional wireless industry players such as equipment and mobile systems manufacturers (Ericsson, Thomson, Huawei, ZTE, Reti Radiotelevisive Digitali, Nokia, Openwave, Sony, Philips, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm) and mobile operators (Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, LG Telecom), and also software vendors (Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle Corporation, Symbian, Celltick, Expway, Mformation, InnoPath, Motive).
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