Mobile Development News

AS IF WE didn't have enough mobile industry forums already, along comes another one in the shape of the OMTP group. Its objective is to define the requirements for an open mobile terminal platform (OMTP).

Perhaps the most interesting aspect is the names of the founding members which include mmO2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone. In other words all of the UK's big names particularly since Hutchinson/3 is on the list of potential new joiners along with Amena, KPN, One Austria, SFR and Telenor.

The group is based in Blighty (London), too. Its aims are somewhat strange, though. The objective is to be technology neutral which means that the platform will have to run on top of Symbian, Linux, and even Windows Mobile. Do handsets really need another layer of software?

Mobile operators waltz into another joint initiative

The press release can be found here.