The Partnership Agreement was signed in a ceremony at the recent 3GPP Project Coordination Group meeting in San Diego with Standards Organisations (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TTA, TTC) and other 3GPP Market Representation Partners. In its role as Market Representation Partner, the NGMN Alliance will give advice to 3GPP and will contribute to 3GPP standardisation activities in the future.
Peter Meissner, Operating Officer of the NGMN Alliance, stated: “The NGMN Alliance is happy to support 3GPP as a Market Representation Partner. Our contributions to 3GPP have always been based on NGMN’s strong experience in mobile broadband. As a Market Representation Partner, NGMN will add its support to the common objective of all 3GPP partners – to achieve a consensus view on the market requirements for services in the scope of 3GPP.”
As Head of the 3GPP Mobile Competence Centre of 3GPP, Adrian Scrase welcomed the NGMN Alliance as a powerful addition to the Partnership, he said: “The membership of the NGMN Alliance matches well the 3GPP constituency, adding a level of strategic vision that will surely help our specifications to fully meet the needs of the next generation of mobile networks.”
For further information: www.ngmn.org, www.3gpp.org.
