Yesterday morning it was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that two dozen of the worlds wireless operators will combined an alliance to compete with Apple who has overtaken the application market with over 150,000 applications.

The Alliance is calling themselves the “Wholesale Applications Community”. Orange, AT&T, and Telefonica are some of the technology platform designers set to deliver applications to all mobile-phone users. Also taking a role in this alliance is Verizon Wireless, China Mobile and Softbank of Japan to create standard, common technology. LG Electronics, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson being large manufacturers have also joined this community. 

The goal of the community is to bring together the very fragmented application market to have one wholesale application community that provides a single point of entry for developers. This would bring together one big developer community out of the many companies to create applications for the different mobile operating systems, handsets, and carriers.

The Wholesale Applications Community could be a real big hit for these companies pulling together to have applications that can be used across all mobile devices. Widely known Apple is the leader in the market offering 150,000 applications ranging from free to down payment on a car. It will be hard for the Community to compete at first, but with time could eventually give Apple a run for their money.

For more in detail about this alliance and which operators are joined into this community just go to this link http://www.wholesaleappcommunity.com/ and learn more on the “Wholesale Applications Community.”

Update: This version has been updated to correct the organizations name.