The wireless technology has provided a completely new media for service providers to build new applications upon Internet and an information channel for consumers to access content in Internet. An ever-increasing number of Internet-enabled portable phones have created a mass market for service providers to bring out new mobile applications that serve content in Internet. There are today roughly 340 million mobile phone users worldwide. It is estimated that in year 2003 the limit of one billion users will be broken and most of mobile phones have an Internet connection.

The enabling technology to bring Internet content and services to mobile phones and other wireless terminals is called WAP. The similar technology in Japan is called iMode. The WAP is a global industry standard published by the WAP Forum. People have compared WAP to the World Wide Web. It enables the information content to be distributed and displayed in mobile terminals such as World Wide Web enabled the access to Internet.

This article describes the basics how a person can access Web content or any knowledge base on Internet using a mobile phone. The basics of the WML language is also presented.