With more than 700 member companies in 75 countries, TM Forum is the world’s leading industry association focused on improving business effectiveness for service providers and their suppliers. Serving the information, communications and entertainment industries, the Forum provides practical solutions, guidance and leadership to transform the way that digital services are created, delivered and charged. Members include the world’s largest service providers, cable and network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.

The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global non-profit industry association of hundreds of leading companies devoted to the proliferation of Wi-Fi technology across devices and market segments. With technology development, market building, and regulatory programs, the Wi-Fi Alliance has enabled widespread adoption of Wi-Fi, worldwide.

The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ program was launched in March 2000. It provides a widely-recognized designation of interoperability and quality, and it helps to ensure that Wi-Fi enabled products deliver the best user experience. The Wi-Fi Alliance has completed more than 5,000 product certifications to date, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services in new and established markets.

Wi-Fi®, Wi-Fi Alliance®, WMM®, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)®, the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo, the Wi-Fi logo, and the Wi-Fi ZONE logo are registered trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance; Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™, Wi-Fi Multimedia™, and the Wi-Fi Alliance logo are trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance.

The SIP Center is a portal for both educating users and the commercial development of the Session Initiation Protocol. Serving the SIP developer community as well as the wider industry since July of 2000, the SIP Center offers comprehensive technical and market resources to those interested in everything SIP! Access a comprehensive products and services directory, the latest SIP news and special interest articles, tutorials, whitepapers, developers resources and much more. Visit The SIP Center for information on all things SIP at www.sipcenter.com.

The ICU Forum offers Internet Communications Users a platform to share views, exchange information and recommend products and services that members have found to add value to the Internet communications experience. Membership is open to everybody who is willing to contribute to improving and bringing Internet communications to a broader user base. The Forum is a non profit association funded by its members.

OMTP is an operator-sponsored forum that serves the needs of each and every link in the mobile phone value chain by gathering and driving mobile terminal requirements. There are currently seven full members: AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, Smart Communications, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Vodafone. OMTP also has the support of two sponsors: Ericsson and Nokia. There are a total of 34 participants from all parts of the industry. These range from Operators to chipset manufacturers and from OEMs to Internet companies.

OMTP works on tasks initiated and led by its whole membership which create requirements for mobile devices. This de-fragmentation ultimately leads to benefits for the whole industry and for the end user.

OMTP currently has activities looking into the areas of the mobile web (BONDI), green devices and accessories, device cameras, visual voicemail, network and battery optimisation amongst others. The OMTP BONDI initiative is addressing the problem that an application written for one phone must be rewritten again and again if it is to work on all phones. OMTP seeks to remedy this problem by helping to address the way in which the existing web 2.0 environment is moved onto mobile devices. BONDI endorses existing web standards in W3C and builds new standard web interfaces and security that will enable new services and create user trust. For more information go to www.omtp.org and http://bondi.omtp.org.

Mobile broadband is changing the way the world communicates. The UMTS Forum helps all players in this dynamic new value chain understand and profit from the opportunities of 3G/UMTS networks and their Long Term Evolution (LTE).

The UMTS Forum participates actively in the work of the ITU, ETSI, 3GPP and CEPT as well as other technical and commercial organisations globally. It also contributes to the timely licensing and deployment of mobile broadband globally through regular dialogue with regulators and responses to public consultations.

The UMTS Forum supports the interests of its membership with a range of studies, reports and other outputs. Principal focus areas include markets trends, mobile broadband services and applications, key growth markets, spectrum & regulation, technology & implementation. A strong promotional voice is maintained via a high-profile presence at conferences, seminars and workshops as well as regular briefings to the media, analysts and other stakeholders.

Membership of the UMTS Forum draws together everyone with an interest in mobile broadband, including network operators, regulators and the manufacturers of network infrastructure and terminal equipment.
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