3GPP Partners
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3GPP Organizational Partner Contacts:
Market Representation Partners
The Market Representation Partners are:
Partners
3GPP produces Technical Specifications, to be transposed by relevant Standardization Bodies (Organizational Partners) into appropriate deliverables (e.g., standards).
The seven 3GPP Organizational Partners - from Asia, Europe and North America - determine the general policy and strategy of 3GPP and perform the following tasks:
- Approval and maintenance of the 3GPP scope;
- Maintenance of the Partnership Project Description;
- Taking decisions on the creation or cessation of Technical Specification Groups, and approving their scope and terms of reference;
- Approval of Organizational Partner funding requirements;
- Allocation of human and financial resources provided by the Organizational Partners to the Project Co-ordination Group;
- Acting as a body of appeal on procedural matters referred to them.
The Organizational Partners and Market Representation Partners (MRPs) jointly perform the following tasks:
- Maintenance of the Partnership Project Agreement;
- Approval of applications for 3GPP partnership;
- Taking decisions relating to the dissolution of 3GPP.
3GPP Organizational Partner Contacts:
| ARIB The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, Japan |
Kazuo Nakamura | +81 3 5510 8594 +81 3 3592 1103 |
www.arib.or.jp |
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ATIS The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, USA |
Steve Barclay | +1 202-434-8832 +1 202-393-5453 |
www.atis.org |
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CCSA China Communications Standards Association |
Shizhuo Zhao | +86 10 8205 0013 |
www.ccsa.org.cn |
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ETSI The European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
Susanna Kooistra | +33 4 92 94 49 35 |
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TSDSI Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India |
Abhay Karandikar | +91 2225767439 |
http://tsdsi.org/ |
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TTA Telecommunications Technology Association, Korea |
Hyeyoung Esthel Lee |
+82 31 724 4637 |
www.tta.or.kr |
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TTC Telecommunication Technology Committee, Japan |
Masa Sumita | +81 3 3432 1551 +81 3 3432 1553 |
www.ttc.or.jp |
Market Representation Partners
The 3GPP Organizational Partners may invite a Market Representation Partner to take part in 3GPP, which:
- Has the ability to offer market advice to 3GPP and to bring into 3GPP a consensus view of market requirements (e.g., services, features and functionality) falling within the 3GPP scope;
- Does not have the capability and authority to define, publish and set standards within the 3GPP scope, nationally or regionally;
- Has committed itself to all or part of the 3GPP scope;
- Has signed the Partnership Project Agreement.
The Market Representation Partners are:
The Partners meet regularly at the 3GPP Project Coordination Group (PCG) meetings alongside the 3GPP Technical Specification Group Chairmen.
Observers
Observers are Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) who have the qualifications to become future Organizational Partners.
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