BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—3G Americas, a new trade organization representing five principal wireless technologies in the Americas, launched to help unify the U.S. wireless industry.
GSM, TDMA, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS carriers and vendors will collaborate on regulatory and technical issues. Chris Pearson, former executive vice president of the former Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC), will be the senior operating officer. Bill Clift, chief technical officer of Cingular Wireless, will serve as its first chairman. The organization is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
Founding members include AT&T Wireless Services, Cingular Wireless, Ericsson, Motorola and Siemens.
