Terminals a 3G priority

date: April 22, 2002

Major players in the 3G industry are holding a series of top-priority meetings to speed up the roll-out of quality terminals. The aim of these meetings is to agree on essential services and functions that will ensure a handset's successful introduction on to a 3G network.

This collaboration is a strong indication of how important a successful launch is to an industry that has suffered setbacks because of handset supply problems.

Co-ordinated by the Global Certification Forum (GCF), the discussions involving operators, terminal manufacturers and test-equipment providers have begun in the UK and at ETSI's headquarters in France.

The aim is to agree on test requirement priorities so that test cases can be developed and all terminals, wherever manufactured, can be developed to the same regulatory standards.

"Without prioritization and a common direction, there is little chance that all the required testing can be achieved, and so little chance that terminals will work on the new networks," says Bob Morley, Chairman of the GCF.

"So far, the initial discussions show a determination to agree terminal priority functions, corresponding test procedures and test cases, as well as the overall standards needed to be set."

He says it is essential for consumer confidence and the overall success of 3G that terminals are ready on time and that industry members should not operate in isolation. "I have every confidence that this new collaborative process involving key industry participants will achieve its aims," he says.

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