GSM operators plan mobile IM standard
by Marc Perton 
posted Feb 13th 2006 at 5:55PM
As if text messaging didn't
lead to enough repetitive stress injuries, the world's cellphone carriers now want you to start using your cellphone to
IM. The GSM Association, which represents carriers from around the globe, has announced an agreement among eight major
service providers, including T-Mobile, Vodafone and Orange, to develop a common standard for instant messaging. No word
on when the new standard, to be known as Personal IM, will be rolled out. There's also no news about whether it will
interoperate with any of the IM services already used by millions of people -- and compatible with many cellphone
services -- from companies such as Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft. Chances are it won't be, but we'll count on the open
source community to fix that as quickly as possible.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Emory @ Feb 14th 2006 1:30PM
Oh come ON now.
The mobile industry already HAS a push for mobile IM and presence, IMPS / WV!
It even has the heavy hitters SE and Nokia rocking it.
Why they just didn't do it with Jabber is beyond me. Though it goes without saying that Orange (a France Telecom company) was hedging on Jabber/XMPP for mobile presence and messaging but never delivered anything worth using.