2011 Endorsing Associations

Central Asian Cellular Forum (www.3gca.org) officially registered as “3G Technologies (Guarantee) limited” is an industry forum which works with regional governments, Telecom Regulators & Operators, Broadcasters, Manufacturers, Academia and the general public in the Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The rationale behind forums foundation is to create awareness and to facilitate promotion and development of CDMA/UMTS-WCDMA technology.

For more information visit: www.3gca.org/

Femtocells are low-power wireless access points that operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile devices to a mobile operator’s network using residential DSL or cable broadband connections.

The Femto Forum has been set up to promote the wide-scale adoption of femtocells. It has 137 members including 63 operators representing more than 1.71 billion mobile subscribers – 33% of the global total. Comprised of mobile operators, telecoms hardware and software vendors, content providers and innovative start-ups, its mission is to advance the development and adoption of small cells via femtocells and broader applications of femto technology for the provision of high-quality 2G/3G/4G coverage and services within the residential, enterprise and public access markets.

The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of leading vendors, Internet service vendors, National research & Education Networks (NRENs) and international ISPs, with a clear mission to promote IPv6 by improving market and user awareness, creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. The key focus of the IPv6 Forum today is to provide technical guidance for the deployment of interoperability thru its IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logo Programs: www.ipv6ready.org & www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_enabled/ & www.ipv6forum.com

The NGMN Alliance (www.ngmn.org) is an open group of about 60 world-leading operators, technology vendors and research institutes. It provides a forum to share, assess, and drive aspects of mobile broadband technologies focusing on LTE & EPC (Evolved Packet Core) and its evolution.

The NGMN Alliance complements and supports the work within standardisation bodies and industry fora by providing a coherent view of what the operator community is going to require for successful deployment and in order to deliver mobile broadband technology quickly and cost-effectively and serve the benefits of the end-user.

SIMalliance is (the non-profit trade association) dedicated to supporting the creation, deployment and management of secure mobile services across the globe. Working in partnership with members and the wider mobile community, SIMalliance anticipates and addresses the security, identity and mobility challenges of an increasingly converged internet. Through its working groups the alliance seeks to offer the blueprint to create a secure, open and interoperable environment where mobile services thrive.
Each year SIMalliance brings the mobile industry together at its SIMposium series of events; showcasing new technologies, discussing emerging models and tackling key market challenges and also hosts the annual SIMagine competition, recognising the very best in secure mobile application and service creation.
Its membership is responsible for delivering the most widely distributed mobile application platform in the world (SIM/USIM).
SIMalliance members are Datang, Eastcompeace, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Incard, Inkript, Kebt, Oberthur Technologies, Prism, Morpho, Valid, Watchdata & Wuhan Tianyu.
SIMalliance Strategic Partners are Comprion, FCI and Movenda.
SIMalliance – Security Identity Mobility

The SIP Center is a portal for both educating users and the commercial development of the Session Initiation Protocol. Serving the SIP developer community as well as the wider industry since July of 2000, the SIP Center offers comprehensive technical and market resources to those interested in everything SIP! Access a comprehensive products and services directory, the latest SIP news and special interest articles, tutorials, whitepapers, developers resources and much more.

For more information please visit: www.sipcenter.com

The UMTS Forum helps all players in the dynamic new value chain of Mobile Broadband understand and profit from the opportunities of 3G/UMTS networks and their Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Participating actively in the work of the ITU, the UMTS Forum contributes to the EC and CEPT and is an ETSI Observer and Market Representation Partner in the Third Generation Partnership Project, contributing to their standardisation work of mobile broadband and licensing and deployment of mobile broadband globally.

The UMTS Forum delivers regular studies on market trends, mobile broadband services and applications, key growth markets, spectrum/regulation, technology and implementation.