Associations
The 2008 Supporting Associations
Founded in 1987, the GSMA is a global trade association representing over 700 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 countries of the world. In addition, more than 200 manufacturers and suppliers support the Association’s initiatives as associate members. The primary goals of the GSMA are to ensure mobile phones and wireless services work globally and are easily accessible, enhancing their value to individual customers and national economies, while supporting a competitive environment, creating new business opportunities for operators and their suppliers. The Association's members serve more than 2 billion customers – over 82% of the world's mobile phone users..
For more information, see www.gsmworld.com
The primary objective of the African CDMA Forum is to lead the rapid evolution and deployment of 3G CDMA-based systems, based on open standards and encompassing all core architectures, to meet the needs of markets in greater Africa . The African CDMA Forum is an affiliate of the CDMA Development Group, the CDG. Members of the ACF become affiliate members of the CDG with full access. Members of the forum share business and technology information and resources between and by CDMA operators, broadcasters, manufacturers, software companies, government, academia and the users in Africa . www.3gafrica.org
Formed in 1996 the UMTS Forum is an international industry association committed to the success of Third Generation (3G) UMTS mobile systems. Bringing together players from across the mobile industry on a peer-to-peer basis, the UMTS Forum promotes a common vision of 3G/UMTS and its Long Term Evolution as well as its worldwide commercial success. Membership of the UMTS Forum is open to all organisations with a commercial interest in 3G/UMTS mobile - including fixed and mobile network operators, infrastructure vendors, terminal device manufacturers, regulators, media/content providers and developers of 3G/UMTS services and applications. www.umts-forum.org
The dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) is a dotMobi accredited independent not-for-profit industry forum with the goal of ensuring that the dotMobi Top Level Domain (.mobi) is operated in the best interests of the global dotMobi community and the Internet at large. The MAG enables its members to keep in touch with market trends to understand, assess and prioritise the needs of the mobile internet community and acts as a vehicle for mobile stakeholders to network and discuss issues contributing towards the betterment of the mobile experience. Please visit http://advisorygroup.mobi.
