Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an application environment and a set of communication protocols that allow the development of applications and services that enable mobile phones and other mobile devices, such as pagers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to, manufacturer-, vendor-, and technology -independent access to the Internet or an Intranet. This synergy between the world's two fastest growing technologies - mobile technology and the Internet - is creating and opportunity that no organization can afford …showed first 75 words of 2251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2251 total…delays. The WAP protocols are designed to compensate for or tolerate this varying level of service. Since the WDP layer provides the convergence between the bearer service and the rest of the WAP stack, the WDP specification lists the bearers that are supported and the techniques used to allow WAP protocols to run over each bearer. The list of supported bearers will change over time with new bearers being added as the wireless market evolves.