THIRD-GENERATION WIRELESS PARTNERSHIP PROJECT 2 EXPANDS ITS PARTNERS
News Release - Vancouver, BC, Canada, January 27, 2000
3gpp2.org
This week, five globally recognized Standards Development Organizations (SDOs): ARIB (Japan), CWTS (China), TIA (USA), TTA (Korea), and TTC (Japan) - were joined as Partners by a Market Representation Partner (MRP), the CDMA Development Group (CDG). CDG which has been participating in these activities since last January, became the first MRP to join with the SDOs. These SDOs have agreed to cooperate in the preparation of globally applicable technical specifications for 3rd Generation Mobile Systems based on the evolved ANSI-41 core networks and the relevant radio access technologies to be transposed by the standardization bodies into appropriate deliverables (e.g., standards). The partners currently refer to these activities as a Third-Generation Partnership Project with ARIB, CWTS, TIA, TTA and TTC as the SDOs comprising 3GPP2. This partnership project -- 3GPP2 -- was launched in January 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia and has a Partners Group, a Steering Committee, and six Technical Specification Groups (TSGs) where individual company members develop the specifications.
Sam Samra, Senior Director, Technical Programs for the CDMA Development Group, stated: "CDG has been participating in 3GPP2 as an individual member since the beginning of the partnership and we are very pleased to become 3GPP2's first Market Representation Partner and are looking forward to working closely with the other partners to meet global user requirements."
Steve Dennett, Chair of the 3GPP2 Steering Committee and Director, U.S. Standards Personal Communications Sector for Motorola, advised: "The partners are pleased that CDG will be joining 3GPP2 and its partners to work co-operatively to develop the specifications that will support agreements reached among major industry participants."
Collaboration with ITU
This work is to complement other similar activities and accelerate the work of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its International Mobile Telecommunications -2000 (IMT-2000) initiative. The IMT-2000 initiative is planned to offer new user benefits such as advanced multi-media services, data rates up to 2 Mbps, next-generation mobile Internet and advanced packet services, global roaming, and more. Such advanced communications systems are intended to provide anytime, anywhere services where such technology is deployed. This will be a major advancement to current systems currently deployed which are referred to as second generation or "2G" systems.
The SDOs have agreed that ITU is preeminent for international telecommunications standardization, and it has been agreed with the ITU that results of the partnership's work will form the basis of contributions to the ITU in accordance with existing procedures in each country. The partnership will also take account of emerging ITU Recommendations on internetworking between IMT-2000 family members. 3GPP2 establishes and maintains liaison relationships with groups working on standards for other IMT-2000 family members, as appropriate. The Organizational Partners and Market Representation Partners believe this global cooperation will accelerate the ITU process for standardization of IMT-2000.
For those who haven't been following the standards setting process too closely, here is a little more about the CDG from their website. Notice the absence of IDC in the large list of member companies.
CDMA Development Group Goals
The CDMA Development Group is committed to leading the rapid deployment , development and evolution of IS-95 based CDMA systems to meet the needs of customers around the world.
cdg.org
Member Companies
Cellular, PCS
and WLL Operators:
ALLTEL Communications
Bell Atlantic Mobile
Bell Mobility
Centennial de Puerto Rico
China Unicom
Clearnet Communications, Inc.
DDI Corporation
Enterprise Communications
Frontier Cellular
Globalstar LP
GTE Wireless
Hansol PCS
Hutchison Telecom (HK), Ltd.
Hutchison Telecommunication (Australia) Limited
IDO Corporation
IUSACELL Digital
Komunikasi Selular Indonesia (Komselindo)
Korea Telecom Freetel, Inc.
Leap Wireless International
LG Telecom, Ltd.
MobileOne (Asia) Pte. Ltd.
Northcoast Communications
Pegaso PCS, S.A. DE C.V.
Pele-Phone Communications Ltd.
PrimeCo Personal Communications
Shinsegi Telecomm Incorporated
SK Telecom
Sprint PCS
Tata Teleservices Limited
Telstra Corporation Limited
Telus Mobility Cellular Inc.
US West
Vodafone AirTouch
Other Telecommunications Companies:
3Com
Alcatel
ALLGON Telecom Ltd.
Celletra Ltd.
Compaq Computer Corporation
DSP Communications, Inc.
ETRI
KSI, Inc.
Logica
LSI Logic
Metawave Communications
MMCD/Panasonic
Metapath Software International, Inc.
Phone.com, Inc.
PrairieComm
Radix Technologies, Inc.
ScoreBoard, Inc.
Sema Group Canada Ltd.
SignalSoft Corporation
SnapTrack, Inc.
Telular Corporation
Texas Instruments
TruePosition, Inc.
UbiNetics
U.S. Wireless Corporation
Wireless Facilities, Inc.
Subscriber Unit
Vendors:
Acer Peripherals, Inc.
ALPS Electric Co., Ltd.
Audiovox Communications Corporation
Denso International America
Fujitsu Network Communication, Inc.
Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.
Kyocera Corporation
LG Information and Communications, Ltd.
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Motorola, Inc.
NEC America. Inc.
NeoPoint
Nokia Corporation
OKI Telecom
Philips Consumer Communications
QUALCOMM, Incorporated
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sierra Wireless, Inc.
Sony Electronics
Test Equipment
Vendors:
Comarco Wireless Technologies, Inc.
Grayson Wireless
Hewlett Packard
NeoPoint
QUALCOMM, Incorporated
Racal Instruments
SAFCO Technologies, Inc.
Telecom Analysis Systems, Inc. (TAS)
Wavetek Wandel Golterman
Wireless Test Systems
Network Equipment
Vendors:
Ericsson, Inc.
Fujitsu Network Communication, Inc.
Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc.
Hughes Network Systems, Inc.
Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.
LG Information and Communications, Ltd.
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Motorola CIG
NEC do BRASIL, S.A.
Nortel Networks
Repeater Technologies
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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