The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications platform, announced that 32 new organisations from across the mobile ecosystem, including operators, vendors and OEMs, have joined the initiative. WAC also announced the availability of the WAC 1.0 specification following the completion of the WAC and JIL merger at the beginning of the month. WAC 1.0 is based upon JIL 1.2.2 and is available to download at www.wholesaleappcommunity.com. Industry ecosystem companies joining WAC at the board level are Accenture, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Qualcomm and Samsung. These organisations join current board members in setting the strategic direction and evolution of WAC and will be able to launch WAC-enabled storefronts. Operators joining WAC at Operator Member level are America Movil, Bell Mobility, Bouygues Telecom, China Unicom, Hutchison 3 Group, KDDI, LG Uplus, MTS, Orascom Telecom, Rogers Communications and SFR. Companies joining WAC as Sponsor Members include Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu, and LG Electronics. WAC Operators and Sponsors will be able to launch WAC-enabled storefronts and benefit from their substantial commitment to the WAC organisation. New Associate Members include Aplix, ASPire, Borqs, Capgemini, Innoace, LiMo Foundation, Myriad Group, Oberthur Technologies, Obigo, Opera Software, Oracle Corporation and ZTE. All WAC members have the opportunity to get involved in the working groups of the organisation and have access to WAC documents, specifications and code. In addition, demonstrating continued momentum, WAC announced the completion of the purchase of the JIL assets on 1 October. The completion of the acquisition is the final stage of the process to combine JIL with WAC, and enables WAC to provide the WAC 1.0 specification to the developer community.
