Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence services.
The white paper describes the service: "Where possible, the protocol makes use of existing Internet and Web technologies.
XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is rapidly emerging as the lingua franca for representing structured data over the Web.
Other useful standards in this space include the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) for registering the format of the IMPS protocol messages."
On the service's sign up page, users selected how frequently their phone polled the Yamigo network.