[jdev] 3GSM

[aliban]

Ben Turner schrieb:

>Hello,
>
>Just a small heads up.
>
>At the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona this week we are demoing our XMPP-IMPS
>interworking solution.
>
>IMPS (formerly known as Wireless Village) is an instant messaging protocol
>for wireless devices specified by the Open Mobile Alliance
>(http://www.openmobilealliance.org). Many of the latest mobile handsets support
>this protocol (Nokia, Ericcson, Siemens etc.).
>
>We are demoing instant messaging interworking between our IMPS server and
>GoogleTalk.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ben
>
>  
>
Well, afaik Mobile providers want to have this IMPS to replace SMS in
future.

Why do they use their own IMPS thing? why don't they use XMPP directly?