MISSION & VISION

Mission

NGMN intends to complement and support the work within standardisation bodies by providing a coherent view of what the operator community is going to require in the decade beyond 2010.

Vision

The vision of the NGMN Alliance is to provide a platform for innovation by moving towards one integrated network for the seamless introduction of mobile broadband services. In addition, NGMN will coexist with other networks while it facilitates smooth migration from them. The initial objective of the NGMN Alliance is the commercial launch of a new experience in mobile broadband communications and to ensure a long and successful cycle of investment, innovation and adoption of new and familiar services that would benefit all members of the mobile ecosystem.

The target architecture defined by these recommendations will be an optimised Packet Switched (PS) network architecture, which will provide a smooth migration of existing 2G and 3G networks towards an IP network with improved cost competitiveness and broadband performance. Therefore NGMN can be accurately viewed as a further step in the evolution of current industry efforts in HSDPA, HSUPA, and EVDO arenas enabling a personalised broadband access experience and consolidating the diversity of networks operated by mobile network operators.

Furthermore, NGMN addresses some of the key issues that underpin the success of mobile industry but, are beyond the activities currently undertaken in the industry. Examples of these issues include management of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), interworking of different technologies, and operational aspects of running successful services. The details of the recommendations proposed by the NGMN initiative are captured in itsWhite Paper on Next Generation Mobile Networks Beyond HSPA & EVDO".

The partners in the NGMN Alliance would like to extend the initiative to other members of the mobile industry ecosystem in order to realize the vision of NGMN via submission of their recommendations to the appropriate standardisation bodies and resolve the issues that are critical and yet outside the current scope of those bodies so that the benefits of mobility, interoperability and global reach can be extended to a new generation of services that are desirable, viable, and feasible.

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