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This paper compares the performance of WAP 1.x to that of Internet protocols. We implement a WAP client and a WAP gateway based on the WAP version 1.1 and assess the overall response time to compare it to those of HTTP and TCP. We use a W-CDMA emulator to evaluate WAP 1.x performance in high-speed wireless networks such as 3G. The results show that all protocols have comparable performance (i.e., response time) except when transmitting large content sets (e.g., multimedia data files), in which case HTTP/TCP offers better performance than WAP 1.x. We also evaluate WAP specific functions such as the binary encoding of WAP headers and WML contents. While binary encoding is effective for small content sets, its effectiveness and performance are questionable for large content sets. Based on the results of our evaluation, we conclude that standard Internet protocols (i.e., HTTP/TCP) are suitable for high-speed wireless networks such as 3G.