Mobile Operators Want Their Share of Apps Revenue

"During this year's Mobile World Congress, the biggest trade show in Europe devoted to mobile technologies, the best time slot for holding a press conference was given to the WAC organization, i.e. Wholesale Applications Community, formed at last year's gathering of the telecommunications elite in Barcelona. The congress organizer, the GSM Association, did its best to make sure that WAC is the subject which would be most talked about, given that it is mostly financed by membership fees from those who care most about popularizing WAC -- the carriers."

"WAC was created during the 2010 MWC after the initiative of a dozen world's biggest carriers, with the aim of developing mobile platforms that would enable developers to make applications independent of the operating system of mobile phones."