What is WAP Push?

If u want to download any mobile application or conten mean, the application provider or network operator will send you a special SMS,just if you click that SMS mean, it will download the application form server using your GPRS Connection.

To be more clearly,

WAP Push is a SMS within the header of which is included a link to a WAP address. On receiving a WAP Push, the compatible mobile handset automatically gives the user the option to access the WAP content on his handset. The WAP Push directs the end-user to a WAP address where content is stored ready for viewing or downloading onto the handset. This wap address may be a page or a WAP site.

WAP Push applications are being used in the delivery of mobile related content such as polyphonic ringtones, java mobile games, applets , weather forecasts and stock price alerts , color screensavers, and picture messages, incoming email alerts, advertising campaigns. The advantages WAP Push

WAP Push offers immediate and tangible benefits to mobile network operators, their subscribers and third party content and service providers alike.

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