The other big global player in sending mobile data through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is Vodafone-Airtouch, which just joined with Mannesmann in the world's biggest-ever merger.

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Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.

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Handling data streams in a dozen divergent formats from web pages to Java commands to wireless application protocol (WAP) overwhelms the cheap, simpleminded chips in most cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).

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