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. 55 (GA#55) will be held in the Hotel Martinez, Cannes, France starting on Tuesday 30 March 2010 at 09h00 and the meeting will continue until 16h00 on Wednesday 31 March 2010.

 

Registration and meeting documents for the Cannes meeting GA#55 are available at: http://docbox.etsi.org/ga/ga55  together with Collective Letter 10_2769 which is the formal invitation.

 

The UK Members’ preparation for GA#55 is planned for Tuesday 23 March 2010 - to commence at 1300 and finish hopefully by 1730 - the meeting will again 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 individual invitation (via the UK Members’ e-mail list) with the necessary registration details.

Please Note: Security restrictions will require that all members’ notify their participation in advance

 

A first draft UK Members’ brief will be distributed prior to the preparatory meeting and the final version of the UK Members’ brief for GA#55 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. 

 

 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, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, 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