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European know how, the saga of mobile communications

(in a nutshell)

Standards & Regulation-What is at stake

8emes Entretiens de l’ARTParis, 28 October 2002

Karl Heinz RosenbrockDirector General, ETSI

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Open Standards and Global Markets…the mobile communications saga in ETSI

• Work started in CEPT in early 80’s.

• Handed-over to ETSI with a view to create a regional seamless market

• Involvement of overseas players > majority of IPRs on GSM held by non-European players

• Today GSM accounts for 67% of the World's wireless market

• 429 networks on air in 174 countries, 646.5 million subscribers, 30 billion SMS/month.

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no GSM

with GSM

The GSM Footprint today

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Organizational Partners

ARIB (Japan), CWTS (China), ETSI, TTA (Korea), TTC (Japan), T1 (USA)

Market Representation Partners

GSA, GSM Association, UMTS Forum, 3GAmericas, IPv6 Forum, 3G.IP, MWIF, WMF

Individual Members

Companies members of an Organizational Partner (>450)

http://www. 3gpp.org

Specifying a W-CDMA system

based on an evolution of the GSM core network,

a member of the ITU IMT-2000 family

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Competing companies get together to test a (draft) standard and its implementations (open or closed event)

A simple and complementary road to Interoperability ( i.e. conformance)

Ensuring higher degree of interoperability by enhancing the quality of the specification

Debugging standards during the standards-making process

Close interaction between ETSI’s Conformance and interoperabilty testing activities (e.g. PTCC &Plugtests)

A new standardization tool:ETSI PLUGTESTS

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PlugTests 2002

M3UA (MTP3 User Application) IP Speech Quality Spring 10th SIPit event MExE Lawful Interception Hiperlan Home 2nd Smart Card 3rd IPv6 Bluetooth UPF9 xDSL with DSL forum MPLS SMS  

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