UK ETSI MEMBERS’ CONFERENCE

 

The UK ETSI Members’ Conference provides a forum for the UK members to prepare for their participation in ETSI General Assembly meetings where representation is by National delegation, the conference is chaired by the head of the UK delegation to the ETSI General Assembly.

 

The next ETSI General Assembly meeting, No. 54 (GA#54) (which includes a Specially Convened Meeting) will be held in the Hotel Martinez, Cannes, France starting on Tuesday 24 November 2009 at 09h00 and will continue until 16h30 on Wednesday 25 November.

 

Registration for GA#54 is available at: http://webapp.etsi.org/MeetingCalendar/MeetingDetails.asp?mid=27346, whilst Collective Letter 09_2728r1, the ETSI Invitation and can be downloaded at: http://portal.etsi.org/docbox/C_Letter/CL2009/CL09_2728r1.pdf

 

The UK Members’ preparation for General Assembly, No. 54 is planned for Tuesday 17 November 2009, to be hosted by Wragge &Co, 3 Waterhouse Square, London, EC1N 2SW, Location Map at http://www.wragge.com/london.asp

 

UK ETSI Members’ will receive an invitation (via the UK Members’ e-mail list)  with the registration details together with the first draft of the UK Members’ brief - the final version of the UK Members’ brief for GA#54 will be e-mailed following the preparatory meeting.

 

If you are a UK ETSI Member and are not in receipt of the UK Members’ mailings, then please advise at the e-mail address below.

 

Please Note: Security restrictions will require that all members’ notify their participation in advance - registration details to be advised later

 

 BACKGROUND

 

ETSI – the European Telecommunications Standards Institute is based in Sophia Antipolis, France and is responsible for preparing voluntary and harmonised standards for the complete range of telecommunications, including radio and broadcast, products. Day to day management is the responsibility of the Director General, who is appointed by the General Assembly.

 

The ETSI General Assembly (GA) normally meets twice per year in the Acropolis Centre, Nice, France and is responsible for the overall ETSI policy, it appoints the Director General (DG) - the ETSI Board members and Board chairman and is supported by a Finance Committee and ad hoc groups as required.

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

ETSI’s best known product is GSM, the ‘Global System for Mobile’ communication, though originally the term GSM was the abbreviation for ‘Groupe Spéciale Mobile’, from the standardisation activity’s origins within CEPT, ETSI’s predecessor

 

ETSI is a founding member of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) which was established in December 1998.  The collaboration agreement brings together telecommunications standards bodies – the Organizational Partners – ARIB, CCSA, ETSI, ATIS, TTA, and TTC with Market Representation Partners - Individual Members (Member companies affiliated with one of the 3GPP Organizational Partners) plus Guest Members and Observers.

 

3GPP’s role is to prepare, approve and maintain globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile  systems based on the evolved GSM core networks, and radio access technologies supported by the Organizational Partners i.e. UTRA both FDD and TDD, for transposition into deliverables e.g. ETSI Standards by the Organizational Partners

 

ETSI Standards can be downloaded free of charge via the Publications Download Area, but note that only publicly available drafts and publications can be downloaded via this application

 

 

General Contact for UK ETSI members – mail@uketsi.org.uk