1. 1 European know how, the saga of mobile communications (in a nutshell) Standards & Regulation-What is at stake 8emes Entretiens de l’ART Paris, 28 October 2002 Karl Heinz Rosenbrock Director General, ETSI

2. 2 Open Standards and Global Markets …the mobile communications saga in ETSI Work started in CEPT in early 80’s. Handed-over to ETSI with a view to create a regional seamless market Involvement of overseas players > majority of IPRs on GSM held by non-European players Today GSM accounts for 67% of the World's wireless market 429 networks on air in 174 countries, 646.5 million subscribers, 30 billion SMS/month.

3. 3 no GSM with GSM The GSM Footprint today

4. 4 Organizational Partners ARIB (Japan), CWTS (China), ETSI, TTA (Korea), TTC (Japan), T1 (USA) Market Representation Partners GSA, GSM Association, UMTS Forum, 3GAmericas, IPv6 Forum, 3G.IP, MWIF, WMF Individual Members Companies members of an Organizational Partner (>450) http://www. 3gpp.org Specifying a W-CDMA system based on an evolution of the GSM core network, a member of the ITU IMT-2000 family

5. 5 Competing companies get together to test a (draft) standard and its implementations (open or closed event) A simple and complementary road to Interoperability ( i.e. conformance) Ensuring higher degree of interoperability by enhancing the quality of the specification Debugging standards during the standards-making process Close interaction between ETSI’s Conformance and interoperabilty testing activities (e.g. PTCC &Plugtests) A new standardization tool: ETSI PLUGTESTS

6. 6 PlugTests 2002  M3UA (MTP3 User Application)  IP Speech Quality  Spring 10 th SIPit event  MExE  Lawful Interception  Hiperlan Home  2 nd Smart Card  3 rd IPv6  Bluetooth UPF9  xDSL with DSL forum  MPLS  SMS

7. 7 You think you have problems!…