The Open Mobile Alliance (PDF)

A practical overview of OMA specifications and how they
enable mobile multimedia services & much more ...!

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is an industry forum, which
develops open specifications to help in the creation of
applications and services to be deployed over converged networks.
The alliance is the leading industry forum for generating
market-driven specifications for interoperable mobile service
enablers that facilitate global user adoptions of mobile multimedia
services. Members include traditional wireless industry segments,
such as mobile operators mobile operators (e.g. AT&T, China
Mobile, Orange, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone),
equipment and mobile systems manufacturers (e.g. Alcatel-Lucent,
Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Samsung, Siemens,
Sony-Ericsson), and Information Technology vendors (e.g. BEA
Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems and
NEC). Since its formation in 2002, the OMA has made significant
progress in areas such as push-to-talk over cellular, device
management, presence and group management, and messaging.

The Open Mobile Alliance:

* Provides a comprehensive overview of the service enablers
published by the OMA, tying together all the different piece parts
developed by the individual working groups

* Offers a thorough introduction to the OMA Service Environments
(OSE) and the specification process for enabling technologies.

* Discusses enablers for services such as gaming, IMS, Parlay,
mobile broadcast and web services.

* Contains contributions from all stakeholders in the mobile
application value chain.

The Open Mobile Alliance Alliance is an invaluable
resource for OMA members, product managers, network architects and
planners, standards managers, standards engineers and IT
professionals. Advanced Students and lecturers on mobile
application development and standardization courses will also find
this book of interest."The success of OMA is due to its
individual members' contributions, and this book is testament to
their hard work. The individual members' efforts and the
authors of this book are to be congratulated on their magnificent
achievements." Mark Cataldo, Senior Advisor, Orange SA, OMA
Technical Plenary Chairman