Several companies in the mobile communication business have
announced their intention to combine forces and establish universal
standards for mobile phone technologies and services. They hope
that this will make it easier for consumers to use their mobile
phones and encourage them to take up premium services due to
enhanced levels of interoperability within the market.
The collaboration between Nokia, Sony, Ericsson, Toshiba and
other major players in the industry was announced at the COMDEX
trade show in Las Vegas. Both Nokia and Sony stressed that the
outcome of this co-operation will be open, and aim to make the
results of their co-operation available to third parties in the
future.
The collaboration will cover technical areas such as new user
interfaces, content downloading, multimedia messaging, open digital
rights management, and compatibility on implementing IPv6 the
"Internet Protocol Version 6". IPv6 is the "next generation"
protocol designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
