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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (19149)	12/4/1998 5:44:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Five Standard Bodies> EE Times (12/04/98, 4:44 p.m. EDT) COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Despite uncertainty over intellectual-property rights concerning air interfaces for third-generation (3G) cellular terminals, standards bodies in Europe, Japan, Korea and the U.S. are pushing ahead to flesh out the details of Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) proposals being forwarded to the ITU. Five leading standards-setting bodies were due to agree on the details of a collaboration called the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) here today. The five organizations in the 3GPP are the following: ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) and TTC (Telecommunications Technology Committee) from Japan, ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute), the T1 standards committee of the U.S., and the TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association) of Korea. The organizations have agreed to cooperate on the production of technical specifications based on the evolution of the European GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network standards and UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA). Four technical-specification groups have already been set up under the 3GPP in anticipation of the agreement, and 3GPP is due to hold its first meetings in Sophia Antipolis, France on December 7 and 8. The four technical-specification groups will cover radio-access networks, core networks, terminals and systems aspects. The air-interface part of the project, UTRA, is based on the use of both time-division- and frequency-division-access schemes in different parts of the spectrum. In the frequency-division mode of operation, it uses a scheme called Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access to deliver data at up to 2 Mbits/second. W-CDMA as proposed in UTRA is not backwards-compatible with the version of CDMA developed by Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) and currently being deployed in the United States, and has been a source of contention between Qualcomm and ETSI. Search EET's Web Site Home Headlines Careers Columns IP Watch All material on this site Copyright © 1998 CMP Media Inc. All rights reserved.