How exactly do mobile phones access the Internet?
Think about how the Internet currently works. In layman’s terms, the Internet utilizes two types of computers—servers and clients. Servers are the computers that host the pages that we view. The clients are our PCs, or the computers that we view these pages from. WAP technology works much in the same way. The difference is that, instead of accessing the Internet from our PCs, we are using mobile phones. The mobile phones become our clients. Servers are still hosting the pages that we view. There’s a trick to all this, though. In order to connect mobile networks to the Internet, a WAP Gateway must exist. In addition, the mobile phone we are using as our client must be WAP-enabled, and the website one is viewing from the Internet must be in a WAP-format. What is a WAP Gateway? A WAP Gateway is an intermediary between the Internet and the mobile network. It converts our “WAP’ request into a “Web’ request when we send information from a mobile phone to the Internet. On the flip side, a WAP
