Editing Open Mobile Alliance (section)

==History==
The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to the proliferation of [[industry forum]]s each dealing with a few application protocols: WAP Forum (focused on browsing and device provisioning protocols), the [[Wireless Village]] (focused on instant messaging and presence), [[The SyncML Initiative]] (focused on data synchronization), the Location Interoperability Forum, the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum, and the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum. Each of these forums had its bylaws, its decision-taking procedures, its release schedules, and in some instances there was some overlap in the specifications, causing duplication of work.

Members include traditional wireless industry players such as equipment and mobile systems manufacturers ([[Ericsson]], [[ZTE]], [[Nokia]], [[Qualcomm]], [[Rohde & Schwarz]]) and mobile operators ([[AT&T]], [[NTT Docomo]], [[Orange SA|Orange]], [[T-Mobile International AG|T-Mobile]], [[Verizon]]), and also software vendors ([[Gemalto]], [[Mavenir]] and others).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://openmobilealliance.org/membership/current-members |title=Current Members |website=Open Mobile Alliance |language=en-US |access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref>

In March, 2018, it merged with the [[IPSO Alliance]] to form OMA SpecWorks.<ref>{{Cite news |title= A Better Way to Define Industry Standards: OMA SpecWorks Creates IoT Standards, But Also Redefines the Game |date= March 28, 2018 |author= Jim Turley |url= https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-better-way-to-define-industry-standards/ |access-date= October 29, 2021 }}</ref>

Related standards bodies include: 3rd Generation Partnership Project ([[3GPP]]), [[3rd Generation Partnership Project 2]] (3GPP2), [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF) and the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C).

Its mission is to provide [[Interoperability]] of services across countries, operators and mobile terminals.
The OMA only standardises applicative protocols; OMA specifications are intended to work with any cellular network technologies being used to provide networking and data transport. These networking technology are specified by outside parties. In particular, OMA specifications for a given function are the same with either [[GSM]], [[UMTS]], or [[CDMA2000]] networks.
Adherence to the standards is entirely voluntary; the OMA does not have a mandative role..
OMA members that own [[intellectual property]] rights (e.g. [[patent]]s) on technologies that are essential to realizing a specification agree in advance to provide [[license]]s to their technology on "fair, [[reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing]]" terms to other members.
OMA is incorporated in California, United States.