UPCOMING NGMN KEY EVENT:

NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition 2010
- Shanghai, June 2-4, 2010

NGMN is pleased to announce the 3rd NGMN Industry Conference 2010, 2-4 June, in Shanghai, China with

• world premier demonstrations of next generation mobile network solutions in the NGMN IC Exhibition
• two conference days with keynotes, panels, presentations from decision makers and industry thought-leaders

Further information on this global next generation mobile networks summit in 2010: NGMN IC 2010 Announcement.

NGMN Alliance Achieves Major Milestone to Open Radio Equipment Interface

Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK February 16th 2010 – The Board of the NGMN Alliance has endorsed the proposal to seek establishment of an ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) – Open Radio Equipment Interface (ORI) to further develop and maintain the specifications for open interfaces between Remote Equipment Control (REC)^(1*) and Radio Equipment (RE)^(2*). These specifications will be built on the implementation recommendations that have already been developed within the NGMN Alliance. Objective of the open interface specifications for radio equipment will be to ensure more economical and efficient deployment of base stations and will also consider ecological aspects when renewing a system in the next generation mobile network. An open interface between REC-RE will enable the possibility to connect and operate equipment from different vendor origin... more

NGMN Alliance Delivers Operators’ Agreement to Ensure Roaming for Voice over LTE

Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK February 15th 2010 – The NGMN Alliance today announced an agreed recommendation to ensure roaming for “Voice over LTE”. The objective of the recommendation is to guarantee voice roaming from day one of next generation mobile network operations. As the target solution for Voice over LTE, the NGMN Alliance again highlighted its firm commitment to an IMS based target solution for Voice over LTE.

The agreement was reached based on an outcome of the NGMN Task-Force on Voice over LTE.

NGMN stated that the Alliance and its members are firmly committed to IMS Voice as the target solution for Voice over LTE. Furthermore, NGMN recognises the benefits of recommending a migratory non IMS voice solution that guarantees voice roaming with LTE handsets whilst allowing use of LTE data roaming in the same device. Thus NGMN recommends that... more