Standards & Regulation-What is at stake
8emes Entretiens de l’ART
Paris, 28 October 2002
European know how,
the saga of mobile communications
(in a nutshell)
Karl Heinz Rosenbrock
Director 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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The GSM Footprint today
with GSM
no GSM
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Specifying a W-CDMA system
based on an evolution of the GSM core network,
a member of the ITU IMT-2000 family
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
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A new standardization tool:
ETSI PLUGTESTS
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)
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PlugTests 2002
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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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