4G Americas and AHCIET Sign Cooperation Agreement

 4G Americas and AHCIET Sign Cooperation Agreement

May 05 2011

BELLEVUE, Wash. – 4G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, and AHCIET, the Ibero-American Association of Research Centers and Telecommunication Enterprises, a non-profit organization of more than 50 Latin American and Spanish telecommunications companies with the purpose of contributing to telecommunications development, have announced a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for mutual cooperation regarding wireless communications activities in Latin America.

The cooperative relationship between 4G Americas and AHCIET was formalized on April 27 in Santiago, Chile, and entails the sharing of technical information, regulatory viewpoints and spectrum recommendations. Both organizations have agreed to participate in wireless events and other regulatory fora in order to progress mobile broadband evolution and its support of social and economic development in Latin America.

General Secretary of AHCIET, Francisco Gomez Alamillo, commented, “We look forward to a very robust cooperation with 4G Americas in regard to the key opportunities and regulatory policies for the wireless telecommunications sector in Latin America.”   

“4G Americas supports appropriate transparent and consistent wireless regulatory policies throughout Latin America for the deployment of mobile broadband services in the region,” stated Erasmo Rojas, Director of Latin America and the Caribbean for 4G Americas. “With this important cooperation agreement with AHCIET, we will strive to continue pro-active advocacy of wireless policies that will serve society throughout the region and meet the growing demands of wireless users in Latin America.”  

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About AHCIET
Founded in 1982, AHCIET is a non-profit organization. More than 50 Latin American and Spanish telecommunications companies have joined us with the sole purpose of contributing to telecommunications development as a basis of every nation’s growth.

Our mission is to be the meeting point for telecommunication operators in Latin America, and to offer our members products and services focused on developing knowledge management, training and social applications and business opportunities.

AHCIET also promotes cooperation agreements with international organizations, manufacturers and service providers with the objective of generating complete information in regulatory, technological and commercial issues as well as vectors directed towards the development of the global information society. For more information, visit the website at www.ahciet.net

About 4G Americas: Unifying the Americas through Mobile Broadband Technology
4G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization’s mission is to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption of the 3GPP family of technologies throughout the Americas. 4G Americas contributes to the successful commercial rollout of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies across the Americas and their place as the No. 1 technology family in the region. The organization aims to develop the expansive wireless ecosystem of networks, devices, and applications enabled by GSM and its evolution to LTE. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with an office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas. More information is available at www.4gamericas.org.

4G Americas’ Board of Governors members include: Alcatel-Lucent, América Móvil, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, CommScope, Ericsson, Gemalto, HP, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks, Openwave, Powerwave, Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Rogers, Shaw Communications, T-Mobile USA and Telefónica.