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Mobile Operators Unite to Fight Apple App Store

Can a motley group of 24 global carriers play well together and create a gigantic, open marketplace for mobile applications–one that works as seamlessly for consumers as Apple’s App Store? Certainly, skepticism is running high that Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), a just-announced alliance between, well, Everyone But Apple in the mobile phone space, can make its ambitious plan work.