WAP and GSM Protocols

WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
GSM: Global Systems for Mobile Communications

The WAP Protocol is commonly used in standard cell phones purely because it can deliver basic Internet information quickly and effectively over the slow transfer speed that these such devices use. It is commanly used for basic e-mails and websites that support WAP. Later, this information was converted to the new format of WML (Wireless Markup Language).

Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) Protocol is the standard for mobile communications method used today with over 80% of the global mobile market using it. The main benefits of GSM is that it allows the feature of being able to globaly call and emergancy number(112). Also the GSM service implements a low cost SMS with benefits the mass population as nearly 8 Billion texts are sent a day, globally.