NOKIA PRESS RELEASE
November 14, 2001
NTT DoCoMo and Nokia to collaborate in promoting open mobile
architecture
Two companies agree on approach to key technology specifications
leading to 3G services
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and Nokia today launched a joint action plan to
accelerate the development based on the open mobile architecture
initiative. NTT DoCoMo and Nokia have common understanding that
common open mobile service middleware is a fundamental enabler to
global deployment of mobile services. NTT DoCoMo and Nokia will
co-operate specifically in promoting open mobile architecture for
WCDMA-based 3G services, in areas such as browsing, messaging and
application execution environment. The two companies intend to make
the results of their co-operative effort available to the mobile
industry as a whole.
"In order to accelerate the introduction of mobile internet access,
mobile visual communications and other services for 3G networks, NTT
DoCoMo is eager to cooperate with other key players in the mobile
communications industry to elaborate specific technical
specifications based on a standardized mobile architecture. This
collaboration with Nokia is one of those activities to achieve that
goal. We sincerely hope that our cooperation with Nokia will
eventually gain strong worldwide supports that help us contribute to
boost global demands for mobile multimedia," noted Dr. Keiji
Tachikawa, CEO, NTT DoCoMo.
"We warmly welcome this cooperation with NTT DoCoMo," said Mr. Jorma
Ollila, Chairman and CEO, Nokia. "The ongoing industrywide movement
towards open technologies and standards marks an opportunity for
maximum growth, and can only motivate and benefit all the players in
this industry as well as consumers worldwide. It is our shared
intention with NTT DoCoMo not only to stand at forefront when open
standards for mobile services are being created, but also to leverage
our thorough understanding of the customer requirements in designing
future open mobile services. "
The two companies have agreed on the adoption of the XHTML/CSS as the
content description language and they will work towards the adoption
of Wireless profiled TCP as a wireless transport layer protocol
defined in the WAP 2.0 specification by the WAP Forum, which are both
consistent with the Internet standards. This combination of
technologies will enable content to be shared by both the Internet
and mobile communications worlds. Subsequently, the co-operation will
also cover the creation of XHTML/CSS profiling.
NTT DoCoMo and Nokia will continue to develop multimedia messaging
technologies with the goal of reaching an integrated messaging
service. Companies aim at achieving an interoperable messaging
standard within the 3GPP, WAP Forum and IETF. The global popularity
of Internet email and the success of Short Message Service (SMS) have
lead to growing market demand for these technologies to be combined
into one open and interoperable mobile solution. Multimedia Messaging
Service (MMS) will bring consumers a whole new variety of services,
in the form of rich person-to-person messaging and multimedia content
downloading and distribution.
NTT DoCoMo and Nokia are working with the JCP Standardisation Forum
to develop Java(TM) technology. Together, the companies are striving
further to provide an execution environment where more user-friendly
applications can be created. The companies expect to reach a proposal
on further technical specifications during the second half, 2002.
Note:
- 3GPP: 3rd Generation Partnership Project
A project established in December 1998 to standardize the 3rd
generation (3G) mobile systems. This forum aims to develop technical
specifications for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on DS-CDMA
(W-CDMA) for radio access networks and on evolved-GSM core networks
for core network architecture. The regional standardization
organizations that constitute 3GPP include T1 (USA), ETSI (Europe),
ARIB (Japan), TTC (Japan), TTA (Korea) and CWTS (China).
- WAP Forum: Wireless Application Protocol Forum
The WAP Forum is the industry association that is responsible for
developing the WAP Specifications, the open, global de facto standard
that allows users of wireless hand-held devices to access and
interact with Internet-based content, applications and services. The
WAP Forum is comprised of the members representing 99 percent of the
handsets sold worldwide and more than 450 million global subscribers.
Members include worldwide device manufacturers, carriers,
infrastructure providers, software developers and other wireless
solution providers.
- IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
The IETF is a large open international community of network
designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the
evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of
the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The actual
technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are
organized by topic into several areas. Much of the work is handled
via mailing list. The Internet standards-related documents are
published as RFC (Request For Comments).
- JCP(provisional name)Java Community Process
An official process to decide and revise new Jave APIs such as CLDC
and MIDP to cater to the needs of industries and technologies.
Specification development starts with examining the Java
Specification Request for a specific API. When it passes the
examination, it is allocated a JSR ID to go through the specification
development and revision process.
- Java(TM)
Java is an object oriented programming language based on C++
developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Java and Java-related logos are
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States
and other countries.)
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