DUBLIN, Ireland, and BELLEVUE, Wash.-Building on their recent interoperability agreement, the GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium agreed to work together for common global service requirements, which include the GPRS/EDGE data evolution of TDMA and GSM technologies as input to the Third Generation Partnership Project as Release 2000 requirements.
“It’s time the carriers moved beyond the discussion of the various technical proposals at the ITU level and begin working on deployable global solutions for customers,” said Umesh Amin, chairman of the UWCC. “This meeting was a breakthrough for the commitment to current and future wireless subscribers worldwide to provide a rational migration from current offers to next-generation services and partnerships.”
The two groups agreed on issues such as membership participation, exchange of information and intellectual property rights and the ongoing technical development work on inter-standard roaming between Time Division Multiple Access and Global System for Mobile communications systems with the newly created GSM Global Roaming Forum.
