Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol
Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol is the method used to send messages to wireless devices such as pagers on NPCS networks. It uses HTTP as a transport layer over the World Wide Web.
Development of WCTP was initiated by the Messaging Standards Committee and submitted to the Radio Paging Community. When the first proposal was received, a sub-committee was established to improve the protocol and issue it as a specification. The sub-committee was moved into the PTC which is a volunteer committee composed of industry representatives. The PCIA accepted the first full release and adopted the protocol as a PCIA standard. The current version is WCTP 1.3.
