Alliance has been formed to accelerate adoption of UMTS TDD as the standard of choice for wide area wireless broadband
February 25, 2004
CANNES, France -- A new alliance was launched today at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes to accelerate the growing success of UMTS TDD as the leading standard for delivering wide-area wireless broadband and other high-speed packet based services. The Global UMTS TDD Alliance has been founded by members of the UMTS TDD community, including both operators and vendors from around the world, and is sanctioned by the GSM Alliance. The UMTS TDD Alliance will provide a forum for members to share their learnings and set requirements for future solutions, as well as to foster the market environment for solutions based on the UMTS TDD standard.
Specific goals of the Alliance are to:
Create greater awareness of UMTS TDD technology as the leading standard for mobile broadband and other high-speed packet based services in the market
Offer a forum for information sharing among members
Support collaborative technology development , interoperability testing, and certification
Educate the market about the many successful reference cases and sensible economics of UMTS TDD deployments
Provide a resource for information on TDD solutions
One of the primary drivers for the creation of the alliance was the demand from operators in all stages of deployment for both technical and marketing insights from those operators that have already launched commercial networks. Among the founding members of the Global UMTS TDD Alliance are 18 operators from five continents, including: Airdata (Germany), AtlasOne (Malaysia), IPMobile (Japan), IQ Networks (Australia), Kite Networks (United States), Mobicom (Mongolia), Net2Cell (Ireland), Nextwave Telecom (US), Sentech (South Africa), Softbank BB (Japan), SonaeCom (Portugal), Aksoran (Kazakhstan), and Woosh Wireless (New Zealand).
Another key driver for forming the alliance is the growing number of vendors developing UMTS TDD network solutions, services, or devices to meet operator requirements. Vendors participating in the forum include Andrew Corporation, Axcera, Fastcomm, InCode Telecom, IPWireless, MRiC, Possio, Samsung, and UTStarcom. Also joining the group as technical advisors are Professor Masao Nakagawa and Professor Riaz Esmailzadeh from Keio University in Japan, early pioneers in the development of TD-CDMA.
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