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TIM, AT&T Wireless, Vodafone Group, Telefonica, NTT DoCoMo, Bouygues Telecom, mmO2, One2One and the Orange Group are fully supportive and committed to the programme.
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Cannes, France
20 February 2002:
TIM, AT&T Wireless, Vodafone Group, Telefonica, NTT DoCoMo, Bouygues Telecom, mmO2, One2One and the Orange Group are fully supportive and committed to the programme.
Suppliers reaffirm support for second phase of GSM Association's M-Services Initiative
Cannes, France, 20 February 2002: Manufacturers and suppliers around the world have expressed continued support for the GSM Association's M-Services initiative to drive a consistent, open global platform for application and service delivery. Phase II of M-Services was announced by the GSM Association today at the start of the 2002 3GSM World Congress.
M-Services Phase II is a clear set of operator-delineated requirements - with GSMA Associate Member & broad industry input - that will assist the manufacturers in defining handset design, functionality and user interface to a universally recognised, open and non-proprietary set of principles. The adoption of M-Services by the industry will improve customer satisfaction levels and simplify the route to market for applications and services.
"With Multimedia Messaging (MMS) offering great potential for the data market, gaining the confidence of subscribers to access data services in a consistent and user friendly way is imperative," said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association. "We have the commitment of the manufacturer community for this initiative going forward, as we had when M-Services was first launched last year. Now we have M-Services compliant handsets available on the market, the initiative will be driven by the consumer demand."
Italy's TIM has already introduced M-Services handsets in volume into its product portfolio, and globally operators such as AT&T Wireless, Vodafone Group, Telefonica, NTT DoCoMo, Bouygues Telecom, mmO2, One2One and the Orange Group among an overwhelming number that are fully supportive and committed to the programme.
"The aim of M-Services is to provide a consistent customer experience when using wireless data services. User confidence is one of the keys to success for the industry as we move forward, and it is imperative that we develop customer-focussed solutions," said Scott Fox, Chairman of the GSM Association. "The handset is the user interface. Our members want to make that element the best possible experience for consumers."
Phase II of the M-Services initiative has received ringing endorsements from all sectors of the wireless industry…
* Alcatel welcomes the GSM Association's M-Services Phase II after having been an early supporter of M-Services phase I. The support to the latter is made apparent through the One Touch 512, which is being presented at the 3GSM World congress at Cannes. "Alcatel supports global, open initiatives as it shares the GSM Association's vision that open platforms are beneficial to the industry as a whole," says Jacques Combet, President of Alcatel's Mobile Phone Division.
* "Intel supports the efforts of GSMA's M-Service initiative and the requirements recognized by the phase II document," said Tony Sica, vice president of marketing for Intel's Wireless Communications and Computing Group. "The effort to specify a more standardized mobile handset will go a long way toward ensuring that operators are positioned to deploy new and advanced data services, as well as help equipment manufacturers create higher performing, more competitive handsets. These requirements are completely in line with the goals of the Intel(R) Personal Internet Client Architecture."
* "Microsoft is very pleased with the progress of M-Services and is proud to have been a contributor to many aspects of the Phase II definition," said Michael Wehrs, Director of Technology and Standards for Mobility Solutions Planning Group at Microsoft Corp. "We see the goals of M-Services as defining the necessary operator requirements to ensure multiple sources of equipment, services and technologies that will lead to a robust and sustainable value chain for all participants while giving end consumers access to compelling services. Microsoft looks forward to our continued involvement with the Initiative's evolution."
* "METE ensures that all of its handsets are compatible with the standards agreed by the industry at large," said Kouji Kodera, Marketing Director of Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe (METE). "Furthermore, we are working with several partners to develop a range of services that truly enhance the capabilities of our handsets in the mobile Internet arena. We expect to
see great movement in this field over the next 12 months and METE will be one of the leaders in the industry."
* "Motorola is fully committed to M-Services and we welcome the arrival of Phase II which will help develop new levels of interoperability between mobile devices and services," says Mike Zafirovski, President of Motorola's Personal Communications Sector. "The implementation of open standards is vital to the development of a seamless mobile environment for consumers."
* "We believe M-Services will be a critical driver of GPRS adoption and usage, delivering a dramatically better user experience with compelling multimedia services and advanced messaging applications, such as MMS and downloadable content," said Don Listwin, president and CEO of Openwave. "It's great to see momentum building for M-Services through expanding support and participation from a broad group of industry players. I believe that M-Services II will be even stronger and better than M-Services I."
* "Samsung heartily appreciates what the GSM Association has done for driving a global standard platform for the industry and cordially supports Phase II of M-Services initiative," said Byung-duck Cho, Senior Vice President of Mobile Communications R&D team with Samsung Electronics. "We believe that the adoption of M-services is sine qua non to establish the better mobile communication context of satisfying customers' various needs and developing our industry. We will expand our leadership in the mobile data service market by continuously introducing cutting-edge and standardized handsets."
* "SAGEM strongly encourages the GSM Association's M-Services initiative", says Thierry Buffenoir, Head of SAGEM's Mobile Phones Division. "The first SAGEM M-services compliant mobile phones - MY 3036 and MY 3062 - will be available shortly on the European markets, offering general public access to innovative services which will allow the users to fully customise their mobiles."
"Sendo is very excited about the opportunities that GSM M-Services Phase II will offer to us and our Network Operator Customers. We will strongly support the M-Services initiative in our future products", said Howard Lewis, CEO of Sendo.
* "The WAP Forum is pleased to see the GSM Association utilizing WAP 2.0 for the design of M-Services Phase II," said Bob Brown, CEO of the WAP Forum. "We believe that M-Services' continued use of industry standards will be critical in the continued development of the Wireless Internet. Operator contribution plays an important role in the WAP Forum's work and we look forward to continuing to build upon our successful relationship with the GSM Association."
>> About the GSM Association
The GSM Association is the world's leading wireless industry representative body, consisting of more than 600 second and third generation wireless network operators and key manufacturers and suppliers to the wireless industry. The Association's members provide digital wireless services to more than 648 million customers (end January 2002). The GSM family of wireless communications Platforms account for approximately 70 percent of the total digital wireless market today. The GSM Association is a unique organisation, with a truly global reach, offering a full range of business and technical services to its members. Its vision is of a seamless, limitless, world of wireless communications.
About GSM - the Wireless Evolution
The GSM platform is a hugely successful wireless communications platform and an unprecedented story of global achievement. In less than ten years since the first second generation GSM network was commercially launched, it has become the world's leading and fastest growing mobile platforms spanning more than 170 countries.
The GSM family of wireless communication platforms is living, growing and evolving and already offers an expanded and feature-rich 'family 'of voice and data enabling services. The GSM family consists of today's GSM, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) and third generation GSM services (3GSM)*.
Together the GSM family provides a flexible platform and an evolutionary path that enables network operators to offer a potentially limitless range of services, meeting the ever-growing needs of their customers worldwide. GSM - Welcome to the Wireless Evolution
* 3GSM represents third generation services delivered on an evolved core GSM network. 3GSM services are delivered at a technical level on third generation standards developed by 3GPP,which utilise air interfaces for W-CDMA and, in some specified markets, EDGE. <<
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