MOBILE STANDARDS TO BE DISCUSSED IN LLEIDA
The mobile industry’s Interconnect Working Group (IWG) will meet for the
first time in Lleida on November 30th and December 1st 2011
The RCS-e suite and the Embedded Mobile are the main subjects that will be
discussed
Lleida, November 29th 2011. Tomorrow Lleida will host for the first time a
mobile industry Interconnect Working Group meeting (IWG#15). This will
involve more than 50 international organisations within the global mobile
ecosystem meeting to discuss standards for the mobile communications
industry.
One of the topics that the IWG will discuss is the GSMA’s RCS-e project, a
simple and interoperable evolution to voice and text, which enables
customers to send instant messages, video chat and exchange files in
real time. All functions are built into the address book of mobile devices.
The GSMA’s Embedded Mobile programme is another industry initiative that
will be discussed during the IWG#15 meeting; The GSMA’s Embedded Mobile
initiative is a market development programme designed to accelerate the
adoption of wireless connectivity in a wide range of devices across the consumer electronics, healthcare, automotive and utilities sectors.
(http://www.gsm.org/our-work/mobile_broadband/embedded_mobile/index.htm)
The GSMA’s Interconnect Working Group (IWG) has overall responsibility for
interconnection matters worldwide and its aim is to improve interconnect and
interworking relationships between mobile operators as well as between
operators and international carriers, hubbing providers and many other
stakeholders in the mobile communications industry.
The GSMA’s mobile operator members represent more than 6 billion mobile
connections from the GSM family of technologies.
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning
more than 219 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile
operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile
ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment
providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The
GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the Mobile World
Congress and Mobile Asia Congress.
For more information, please visit Mobile World Live, the online portal for the
mobile communications industry, at www.mobileworldlive.com or the GSMA
corporate website at www.gsmworld.com.
Find out more about Lleida.net – http://www.lleida.net
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telecommunications companies spanning 200 countries in five continents.
