The Open Mobile Alliance and trends in supporting the mobile services industry.

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is the leading industry forum for generating market-driven specifications for interoperable mobile service enablers to facilitate global user adoption of mobile multimedia services. Since its formation in 2002 the OMA has made significant progress in delivering several enablers in areas such as mobile Web services, push-to-talk over cellular, and presence, and it plans to deliver many more enablers in the coming years. This paper discusses the various projects undertaken by the OMA working groups that deal with multiservice networks and offers an early perspective on the mapping and evolution of the OMA enablers that are part of the overall OMA service environment (OSE), which spans all mobile access and core network technologies. The ideas presented in this paper are solely those of the authors, they do not reflect an official OMA point of view. (c) 2005 Lucent Technologies Inc.