Industry Associations

 The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) unites telecommunications standards bodies as “Organizational Partners”.

 

 ATIS prioritizes the industry’s most pressing, technical and operational issues, and creates interoperable, implementable, end to end solutions -- standards when the industry needs them and where they need them.

The Femto Forum is a not-for-profit membership organisation founded in 2007 to promote femtocell deployment worldwide.

The MultiService Forum is a global association of service providers, system suppliers and test equipment vendors committed to developing and promoting open-architecture, multiservice Next Generation Networks. Founded in 1998, the MSF is an open-membership organization comprised of the world's leading telecommunications companies. The MSF's activities include developing Implementation Agreements, promoting worldwide compatibility and interoperability of network elements, and encouraging input to appropriate national and international standards bodies.

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the leading trade association representing the global information and communications technology (ICT) industries through standards development, government affairs, business opportunities, market intelligence, certification and world-wide environmental regulatory compliance. With support from its 600 members, TIA enhances the business environment for companies involved in telecommunications, broadband, mobile wireless, information technology, networks, cable, satellite, unified communications, emergency communications and the greening of technology. TIA is accredited by ANSI.
 

Comprised of leaders in the wireless industry, the VoLGA Forum seeks to enable mobile operators to deliver mobile voice and messaging services over LTE access networks based on the existing 3GPP Generic Access Network (GAN) standard.