Partner Associations
3rd Generation Partnership Project
3GPP is the leading standards project for 3rd and 4th Generation mobile systems. EDGE, GPRS, W-CDMA, HSPA and LTE have provided solid growth, with the latest versions (beyond 3GPP Release 10) of LTE set to be the platform for future radio accesses – even beyond 4G.Day-to-day work from 3GPP is freely available on-line, with meeting documents, specifications and their ‘Change Requests’ on-line for all to study and use for future systems evolution. Take a look at www.3gpp.org |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadcast and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association whose more than 700 member companies and organizations, drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents worldwide, determine its work programme and participate directly in its work. For more information please visit: www.etsi.org |
Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA)
GSA represents leading GSM, 3G/WCDMA-HSPA and LTE suppliers, delivering trusted own-researched surveys, reports, facts, stats, objective analysis and information confirming and explaining market developments, trends, evolution and opportunities. Support to network operators includes targeted seminars for information exchange, relationship events, campaigns, case studies, and information papers. |
Open Mobile Alliance
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers open specifications for creating interoperable services that work across all geographical boundaries, on any bearer network. OMA’s specifications support the billions of new and existing fixed and mobile terminals across a variety of networks. Driven by the global demand for mobile data services, the member companies of the Open Mobile Alliance support the adoption of new and enhanced information, communication and entertainment solutions. For more information please visit: www.openmobilealliance.org |
reTHINK
The main goal of the reTHINK project is to design and prototype a new, non telecom centric, but Web-centric P2P Service Architecture enabling dynamic trusted relationships among distributed applications called Hyperlinked Entities (“Hyperties”) that support use-cases beyond commoditized telephony such as contextual and social communications, M2M/IoT and content oriented services. This project will enable any type of service delivery through specialized end-to-end network quality commitments, powered by specialized P2P and/or Cloud services (delivered as SaaS, PaaS or IaaS). |
SIP Forum
The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that advance and promote SIP technology, such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. One of the Forum's recent technical activities is the development of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation a standards-based recommendation that provides detailed guidelines for direct IP peering and interoperability between IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks, and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program through which eligible companies can gain SIPconnect validation and the right to license the use of the SIP Forum's 'SIPconnect Compliant' certification mark the official brand of the leading standard for SIP Trunking products and services. Other important Forum initiatives include work in Fax-over-IP interoperability, User Agent Configuration, and the opportunities for SIP in Smart Grid deployments. For more information, please visit: http://www.sipforum.org . |
UMTS Forum
Founded in 1996, the UMTS Forum is an international industry association that is committed to the success of Third Generation (3G) UMTS mobile systems and their Long Term Evolution 4G LTE. Bringing together players from across the mobile industry on a peer-to-peer basis, the UMTS Forum promotes a common vision of 3G/UMTS and its evolution towards 4G LTE, as well as their worldwide commercial success, and conducts studies and reports on key focus areas such as markets & trends, spectrum & regulation, impact of technologies & implementation issues, and key growth markets. Membership of the UMTS Forum is open to all organisations with an interest in mobile broadband – including fixed and mobile network operators, infrastructure vendors, terminal device manufacturers, regulators, media/content providers and developers of 3G/4G services and applications. |
