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Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile
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and presence services. It is intended to be a standard for
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s and mobile devices to use these services across platforms. Many wireless phones now include mobile instant messaging capabilities designed to hook into messaging services using
IMPS IMPS or Imps may refer to: * ''Imps*'', a comedy film released in 2009 * OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service * Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite, an April Fools' Day RFC * The Oxford Imps, an improvisational comedy troupe * Insensitive munitio ...
on a carrier's network, formerly known as the Wireless Village protocol. Those phones implement it as an ''IM'' icon on the phone, which is typically renamed and customized by the cellphone carrier or removed completely if not supported at the network level. Most
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and
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phones have that feature, as do many
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phones.


Description

The white paper describes the service: ''"Where possible, the protocol makes use of existing Internet and Web technologies. These technologies are implemented widely and are well tested, so their use within the protocol ensure easy implementation and interoperability testing. XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is rapidly emerging as the lingua franca for representing structured data over the Web. To the extent possible, the protocol uses XML to represent the protocol data being exchanged during an IMPS session. IMPS activities in the IETF IMPP have received widespread interest throughout the industry. Although it is still in development, to the extent possible, the Wireless Village initiative will support the CPIM draft and build upon it. Other useful standards in this space include the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) for registering the format of the IMPS protocol messages."''


History

An announcement was made when this service was conceived by
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,
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and
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. The specification is maintained by the
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, and is currently at version 1.3 of the protocol. As of now, only a few public services exist using Wireless Village. Any unlocked phone can be configured to use these services, and therefore connect to other
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services if implemented.


Operator implementations


noknok
MTN South Africa, South Africa's 1st operator launched IMPS service. It does not work with native phone applications.


Yamigo

Yamigo was a free communications service, based in
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, that allowed
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on
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s over wireless data services such as
GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Insti ...
. The service was based on the protocol Wireless Village, developed by the
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, which is a joint venture between
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,
Sony Ericsson Sony Mobile Communications Inc. ( ja, ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社) was a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001, as a joint venture between Sony Group Corporation and Ericsson. I ...
,
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and other mobile device manufacturers. Certain models of
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that include a
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could access the Yamigo network. These included certain models of phones from Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and
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. Once registered, Yamigo users could send messages to each other, and to users on
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,
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,
AOL Instant Messenger AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. AIM w ...
and ICQ. Yamigo supported importing
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s from those services automatically. Users connected to Yamigo via
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and the internet. On the service's sign up page, users selected how frequently their phone polled the Yamigo network. Because it is a client-server protocol, receiving messages depended on how often the phone was set to poll the network. The service was abandoned in late 2005, and the last upgrade was version .19 in April 2005.


See also

*
Instant Messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigge ...
- Detailed Article on Instant Messaging and related services * Presence - Detailed Article on Presence and related services *
Open Mobile Alliance OMA SpecWorks, previously the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is a standards organization which develops open, international technical standards for the mobile phone industry. It is a nonprofit Non-governmental organization (NGO), not a formal governme ...
- a standards developing organisation managing the (mobile) Instant Messaging and Presence Service
IMPS IMPS or Imps may refer to: * ''Imps*'', a comedy film released in 2009 * OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service * Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite, an April Fools' Day RFC * The Oxford Imps, an improvisational comedy troupe * Insensitive munitio ...
specification


External links


OMA Instant Message and Presence ServiceIM 101: Wireless Village
— an informative article fro
Instant Messaging Planet
{{Open Mobile Alliance standards Open Mobile Alliance standards Instant messaging protocols Mobile telecommunications standards