The world's largest wireless operators said Monday they will combine forces to enable software vendors to design applications that are used in the largest number of phones.
The "Community of wholesale application is an attempt to achieve the initiative with cell phone makers like Apple Inc., Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd., which have their own stores of programs. Google Inc. is also building a meaningful point of sales software for Android.
The 24 community wireless operators, announced in Barcelona during the Annual Congress of Mobile Telephony, will let software makers to design applications that can be used in phones from different manufacturers.
A software developer will be able to create an application and sell it through retail outlets of different wireless operators.
Mobile programs represent an increasingly larger but manufacturers face the problem that their products can be used only in a few phones. For example, an application for the Apple iPhone can not be used in other phones.
While many manufacturers like the new idea, it is difficult to implement. Also face the problem of ensuring that their software work on phones with different capacities, different keyboard and screen sizes.
The "Community of applications wholesale" to the top two platforms will use existing standard and hope to develop one within a year.
Americans Verizon Wireless, AT & T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA are part of the group, which also includes the Japanese NTT DoCoMo, Mexico's America Movil, Vodafone Group PLC in English and Chinese China Mobile. The group will serve to 3.000 million users.
The handset makers Samsung Electronics Co and Sony Ericsson also supports the group. None sells applications by itself.
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