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OMTP announces final documents prior to transition into Wholesale Applications Community (WAC)

25 June 2010 - In advance of its transition into the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), the OMTP today announced its three final document releases. Read more >>

OMTP Announces Winners of BONDI widget competition

14 February 2010 - Read more >>

OMTP announces latest BONDI release 1.1 and new cross platform widgets

11 February 2010 - Read more >>

Industry Recommendations Body, OMTP Announces New Affiliate Member Category

25 January 2010 - New category attracts leading organisations Read more >>

Open Source BONDI Initiative Rides Wave into 2010

16 December 2009 - Operators and Handset Manufacturers Work On Implementations For Release Early 2010 Read more >>

BONDI is first for compliance to W3C Widgets specification

02 December 2009 - In an important step towards cross-platform, interoperable applications for mobile phones the OMTP today announced that its BONDI Reference Implementation is the first to be fully compliant with the 165 mandatory tests available for the W3C Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration specification. Read more >>

OMTP’s Advanced Trusted Environment Guidelines To Underpin Contactless Mobile Phone Payments

15 October 2009 - UK Cards Association, Visa Europe, MasterCard International and the Communications Crime Strategy Group join Home Office in Endorsement of OMTP Recommendations Read more >>

Inspiring Scottish Capital Plays Host to 5th BONDI Codefest - Defining Future Mobile Applications

25 August 2009 - The 5th OMTP Codefest visits Edinburgh and gathers together global developers to work on the Reference Implementation of BONDI. Read more >>

Mobile web browsing steps closer to reality as OMTP sponsors W3C Mobile Web Initiative

10 August 2009 - OMTP today announced its sponsorship of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative and showed its support for the development of open web standards in the mobile industry. Read more >>

OMTP delivers recommendation to make mobile terminal testing not so ‘testing’

25 June 2009 - The OMTP today announced the release of its Mobile Terminal Testing recommendation document. Its aims are to simplify the automated testing of different devices, reduce the time to market for new devices and services, and improve the quality of those devices and services in the marketplace. Inherent in the implementation of these recommendations is the potential for significantly reduced testing costs by manufacturers, operators and application developers. Read more >>

BONDI Approved Version 1.0 is released with commitment from operators and manufacturers

02 June 2009 - Today’s announcement of the Approved Release 1.0 of BONDI from OMTP shows the continued evolution and maturity of the BONDI initiative. With a strong membership support for this new release, OMTP expects to see BONDI compliant devices in the market during 2010. Read more >>

OMTP updates Trusted Environment recommendations

28 May 2009 - The new maintenance releases reflects evolution in hardware security and provides updates to the TR0 and TR1 documents as well as an update to the security threats document. Read more >>

OMTP defines standardised interface for Visual Voice Mail

22 April 2009 - The OMTP today issued its latest recommendation document which defines an open and standardised interface between Visual Voice Mail (VVM) clients and voice mail servers. By gaining consensus for this key enabler between operators and vendors, market fragmentation can be avoided. Read more >>

OMTP ANNOUNCES NEW PARTICIPANT MEMBERS – BONDI CONTINUES TO BUILD MOMENTUM

30 March 2009 - The OMTP today announced that its BONDI initiative continues to gain momentum with the addition of Azingo and Ikivo as participant members and the continued development of BONDI compliant widgets and web sites. BONDI is the catalyst that is driving consistency and security in the implementation of key mobile interfaces for web applications. Now widely supported, it will greatly help developers to build even better web applications which work on mobile devices from different manufacturers and with different operating systems. Read more >>

BONDI INITIATIVE CONTINUES TO GROW - BONDI V1.0 launched, Opera Software joins OMTP and LiMo Foundation announces endorsement

09 February 2009 - The OMTP (www.omtp.org) today announced the release of Version 1.0 of BONDI. At the same time it also announced the endorsement of the LiMo Foundation for the BONDI specifications and Opera Software as the newest OMTP Participant. Read more >>

DELIVERY OF COMPELLING MOBILE WEB SERVICES TAKES A MAJOR STEP FORWARD - OMTP announces key stage in delivery of BONDI initiative

28 January 2009 - The OMTP (www.omtp.org) today announced the alpha launch of a new initiative designed to ease the roll out of compelling new web services on mobile devices. Read more >>

OMTP BONDI web extensions survey

01 August 2008 - Companies with experience of extending mobile web environments are invited to respond to a BONDI implementation to help drive future work Read more >>

OMTP kick starts the BONDI open source project

01 August 2008 - OMTP is making an open call for code submissions to kick start the BONDI open source project. Read more >>

OMTP drives Consistency in Bluetooth Implementations

31 July 2008 - OMTP, the mobile operator sponsored organisation today released a set of requirements which provide a clear direction on the support of a consistent set of Bluetooth profiles for mobile devices and accessories. Read more >>

Leading Mobile Operators Collaborate to Enable Rich Mobile Web Services

01 July 2008 - A leading group of mobile operators today unveiled a new initiative to create a blueprint and roadmap for opening up mobile functionality to encourage the development of exciting mobile applications without compromising customer security. The new initiative will be known as BONDI. Details can be found on www.omtp.org/bondi Read more >>

Mobile Industry Organisations Work Together To Secure Next Generation Handsets

25 June 2008 - OMTP, and the NGMN Alliance today (25th June 2008) announced plans to work together to enhance the industry’s awareness of device and network security in next generation mobile networks Read more >>

OMTP Defines Requirements for Safer Mobile Transactions

22 May 2008 - Industry Initiative Offers ‘Security Recommendations’ to Future Proof Mobile Devices Read more >>

 

Home Secretary welcomes mobile phone industry’s ongoing commitment to handset security

22 May 2008 - New security recommendations from OMTP raise the bar for mobile phone security Read more >>

OMTP adds new recommendations for Advanced Device Management

28 January 2008 - OMTP today released a new set of requirements for advanced device management. This document defines a set of recommendations for device management elements on the device which allow the operator, manufacturer or third party to resolve problems on the device. These problems may relate to the changing of default configuration settings, incompatibility between different settings or incompatibility between applications on the device. When these problems arise, there should be mechanisms that allow appropriate actions to be taken (e.g. bug fixes, over the air firmware updates, revocation of applications, etc.) Read more >>

OMTP adds new recommendations for Anti-virus clients

28 January 2008 - OMTP today released a new set of requirements for anti-virus clients. This document defines how the anti-virus client can be remotely managed by a mobile network operator's device management authority. The device itself needs to allow such an anti-virus client to be remotely managed and hence it needs to fulfill a basic set of requirements for this type of remote application management. As an anti-virus client will use a Terminal's remote management features and does not need to implement a complete remote application management solution, this document concentrates on the features that an anti-virus client needs to support. Read more >>

OMTP adds new recommendations for Positioning enablers

28 January 2008 - OMTP today released a new set of requirements for Positioning Enablers. The document defines the requirements that enable location based services for the GSM/WCDMA family of mobile Terminals in terms of platform and interfaces. It addresses different positioning techniques (wireless network based, satellite based and hybrid), standard interfaces (such as the ones defined in OMA SUPL) and APIs to be accessed from the application level in the mobile. Read more >>

OMTP Paves way for Secure Enhanced Mobile Applications

18 October 2007 - Industry white paper sets out agenda for safer m-commerce Read more >>

OMTP Consensus Ensures Smooth Mobile Application Future

15 October 2007 - Benefits include: Longer Battery Life, Easy application set up & configuration; wider adoption of revenue generating services. Read more >>

Broad Manufacturer Agreement Gives Universal Phone Cable Green Light

17 September 2007 - The OMTP's latest recommendation paper has been agreed to help pave the way for a single, universal cross manufacturer USB (Universal Serial Bus) cable connector that enables mobile consumers to connect and charge their mobile devices. Read more >>

OMTP Announces Requirements for IMS

12 June 2007 - OMTP Provides Framework To Ensure IMS Has Solid Platform. Read more >>

OMTP Unites With Korean Mobile Organisation To Drive Usability and Promote Worldwide Standards

02 May 2007 - OMTP signs memorandum of understanding with the Korea Wireless Internet Standardization Forum. Read more >>

Total Telecom

01 May 2007 - Network Security, Into the Breach - Tim Raby comments on mobile network security. Read more >>

Korea Herald

20 April 2007 - WIPI Gets Closer to International Standard – News piece on OMTP’s Memorandum of Understanding with Korea Wireless Internet Standardization Forum (KWISF). Read more >>

OMTP announces new participants

01 March 2007 - LG Electronics, Intel and the Toshiba Corporation have joined the OMTP, strengthening and supporting the organisation’s work to set recommendations for service enablers on mobile devices. Read more >>

Leading Telecoms Organisations Address Device Management Issues

27 February 2007 - Leading European telecom organisations, OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform) and OMSI (Open Mobile Service Interface) are promoting enhanced device management through open standard initiatives. Read more >>

OMTP Places Security High On 2007 Agenda

05 February 2007 - Following 18 months of detailed work within OMTP including an extensive usability study, the OMTP has issued its Application Security Framework which details the way in which the phone can restrict applications from accessing those functions which might be abused by malicious software. Read more >>

OMTP Product Profile Process Sees Early Phase Adoption

28 November 2006 - OMTP welcomes the first statements from Discretix, Spansion, Symbian and VirtualLogix. Read more >>

VirtualLogix First to Announce OMTP Product Profile Statement

10 October 2006 - VirtualLogix’s product profile statement outlines conformance to OMTP’s Trusted Environment Recommendation. Read more >>

OMTP Welcomes New Members

10 July 2006 - Cingular Wireless, Certicom, Jaluna, Trango Systems, Openwave and Access join the OMTP community. Read more >>

OMTP Announces New Managing Director

28 November 2005 - Tim Raby to join mobile telecoms industry group Read more >>

OMTP Announces New Chairman

11 March 2005 - Mobile telecommunications industry group names Anders Wästerlid to key role. Read more >>

OMTP Announces New Participants

19 January 2005 - Mobile telecommunications group receives further support as more industry players join Read more >>

OMTP Announces New Participants

06 October 2004 - Recently formed mobile group receives strong endorsement as key industry players join. Read more >>