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GSM Association Takes Over the Management of the Wholesale Applications Community
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The GSMA today announced that it has reached an agreement to integrate the major programmes and initiatives driven by the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) into the GSMA.
In addition, Apigee, a provider of API products and services, has acquired the technology assets of WAC. Apigee will continue to develop and evolve the WAC Web Run Time and network application programming interfaces (APIs) and will provide these assets as a managed service to the GSMA and its mobile operator members.
"Since its inception, WAC has been committed to simplifying the developer experience and fostering innovation through an open web run time and cross-operator API platform," said Franco Bernabe, Chairman, GSMA. "They have made strong progress, with operators deploying WAC apps and utilising the WAC Payment API. By integrating WAC into the GSMA, we will be able to scale this across our full membership, assisting operators around the world to better serve their customers."
In February, WAC launched its Payment API, an operator billing service that enables customers to pay for digital goods via their operator bill. WAC's Payment API offers developers a way to monetise their applications across a range of platforms and technologies, using a cross-operator billing service. The WAC Web Run Time has been enabled on approximately 12 million devices.
"We are very proud of the work that the team has done in developing and incubating an open, web-based platform that can run applications and utilise network APIs across multiple devices and operating systems," said Michel Combes, Chairman, WAC. "Now we are excited to move on to the next stage of our development with the GSMA and their ability to make this technology available to their 800 operator members worldwide."
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