WARSAW, Poland-The GSM MoU Association and Japan’s largest wireless communications operator, NTT DoCoMo, have signed an agreement regarding the development of third-generation mobile phone technology.
The GSM MoU believes the agreement underlines the global scale of unification behind an evolved Global System for Mobile communications platform-wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology-as the leading technology choice for 3G systems and services.
The agreement, said the GSM MoU, will ensure close cooperation and sharing of information between two key organizations central to realizing one global standard for mobile communications.
However, Japan’s standards body, the Association of Radio Industries and Business, is trying to harmonize W-CDMA technology with W-cdmaOne technology based on the Interim Standard-95 protocol. So far, ETSI has resisted harmonizing the two standards. ETSI earlier this year approved W-CDMA technology for 3G mobile networks.
