WASHINGTON -- The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), an international specifications setting body, holds its first industry wide event where leading technology executives assess the challenges of standards deployment and the innovative new market drivers that will affect standards development in the future. The organization also marks the 1000th product implementation tested in its Interoperability (IOP) Program, and announces the public availability of its Charging Version 1.0, and Download over the Air Version 2.0 as Candidate Enabler Releases (CER).

"We complete 2006 with the release of Charging and Download Candidate Enablers to improve content distribution and charging deployments. We look forward to building on the success of these new releases and the many enablers we have released over the last four-and-a-half years," says Jari Alvinen, Chairman of the Board, OMA. "As we approach our fifth anniversary next year, we felt the time was right to invite some of the foremost technology executives to look at the full body of our work, the current needs of the industry in standards deployment, and where the future might take us."

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)