The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies formed during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, announced 32 new member companies and availability of the WAC 1.0 specification.
Among the companies joining WAC at the board level are Accenture, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Qualcomm Incorporated and Samsung. In terms of operators jumping on board, we find América Móvil, Bell Mobility, Bouygues Telecom, China Unicom, Hutchison 3 Group, KDDI, LG Uplus, MTS, Orascom Telecom, Rogers Communications and SFR. Then there are companies joining WAC as Sponsor Members, including Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu, and LG Electronics. Finally, the list also includes new Associate Members such as Aplix, ASPire, Borqs, Capgemini, Innoace, LiMo Foundation, Myriad Group, Oberthur Technologies, Obigo, Opera Software, Oracle Corporation and ZTE.
As for the WAC 1.0 specification, it comes on the heels of the completion of the WAC and JIL merger at the beginning of the month. WAC 1.0 is based upon JIL 1.2.2 and is readily available for download…