OBSAI Gets to Work

ESPOO, Finland -- Leading companies in the telecommunications industry have joined forcesthrough the newly formed Open Base Station Architecture Initiative(OBSAI). The official signing ceremony took place this month, attendedby LG Electronics Inc; NEC Networks; Nokia and Samsung Electronics. TheOpen Base Station Architecture Initiative(OBSAI) signals the commitment of these companies to create an open,competitive, mobile network element module industry. The foundingcompanies welcome and invite all other infrastructure and subsystemsuppliers to join OBSAI for the benefit of the wireless industry.Open Base Station Architecture will lead to modular radio base stationsfeaturing open internal interfaces. This will allow manufacturers tofocus their research and development efforts on their core competenciesand to buy selected radio base station modules from each other and fromother module vendors.The real beneficiaries of this Initiative are the end-users of theforthcoming Mobile Internet services. The initiative will allow fasterdevelopment of innovative and more cost-effective radio base stations,enabling earlier and lower-cost introduction of new technologies andservices by the operators."Open Base Station Architecture will revolutionize radio base stationdevelopment," says Jukka Klemettilä, Chairperson of the Open BaseStation Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) "It will allow next-generationradio base stations to be built using best-of-breed, shared platformsand modules, available on an open market, whilst letting networksuppliers differentiate on system and network-element levels. "Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI)