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New additions bring WAC membership to 48

Tim Green
New additions bring WAC membership to 48

Myriad, Accenture, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Qualcomm and others join Wholesale Applications Community.

The WAC was formed in February by a group of operators in order to provide shared APIs that will give developers the opportunity to write apps that can be deployed across multiple platforms.

It's pitching this as a single 'pipe' for reaching a potential 3bn subscribers.

An independent company was formed in July to promote and manage the activities of the WAC. Must be working as the new additions include some of the industry's biggest infrastructural names.

"WAC now has 48 members committed to building open platforms, simplifying the application development process for developers and providing their customers with greater choice," said Peters Suh, CEO of WAC.

"The influx of new members, combined with our continued delivery against key milestones, demonstrates that the WAC initiative is gaining significant momentum in the market."

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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.

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