After Nokia’s chairman, Jorma Ollila, rebutted Openware’s request to join the Initiative, Openwave’s CEO Don Listwin, was reported as saying that Nokia is "trying to impose its own standard as the industry standard."

Furthermore, Listwin implied that Nokia was using its commanding market position to impose its own approach, which if successful, will see mobile communications vendors faced with higher costs.

In response to Mr. Listwin’s comments, Niklas Savander, vice president of Nokia Mobile Software, told the newspaper, that Openwave had " not been the model child of openness" itself in the past. But confirmed that once terms and conditions for allowing new members are finalized, Openwave, more than likely, would be "among the first members to join."

When Nokia launched the Open Mobile Architecture Initiative last November, at Comdex 2001, its first priority was to push for standardization for telecom and handset vendors. This attracted a notable roster of founding members including mobile operators Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, mm02 and AT&T Wireless and handset makers Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Fujitsu, and Siemens.