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Can WML/XML dial out from a WAP Phone

I have a WML script which looks up information in a database, feeding back variables which include a telephone number of a contact. Can a WAP phone be configured so that pressing a single button will then dial the recovered telephone number, allowing one to talk directly to the contact number, without entering the whole number through the keypad ... are their functions in wml/xml that allow this to be done, or do I have to access the WAP phone architecture at a lower level ?
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Thanks - but I have now looked around a bit more deeply, and (to answer my own question ...) it seems it is possible using the Wireless Telephony Application Interface Specification protocols. These specs are at:http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical/SPEC-WTAI-19990531.pdf and SPEC-WTA-19990716.pdf.  There is also a report
at: http://dev.forum.nokia.com/wapboard/messages/11197.html
that this is possible, at least on an Ericsson R320. It also seems possible to manipulate the SIM card of the WAP browser.  So, it's time to get reading the WTAI specification ...

Glenn White  glenn.white@btinternet.com
SIM cards are a different story... but other phones that use CDMA (like Qualcomm and Nokia) will not allow this.

CJ
Glenn,

it is indeed possible with the WTAI, but for the moment the only GSM that supports it is the Ericssons R320. The correct syntax is:
<a href="wtai://wp/mc;0123456789">Call Me</a>


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