TTA 대표홈페이지(영문)

   - Agreed to Develop W-CDMA and WiBro Compatibility Standard-

Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA, President Kim Won-sik, http://www.tta.or.kr) hosted the 3GPP Conference from May 28th to June 7th at the Busan Paradise Hotel. The 3GPP Conference develops technological standards for IMT-2000 3rd generation mobile telecommunications technology based on asynchronous WCDMA.

The 3GPP Wireless Connection Technology Workshop, which was held in conjunction with the main conference, decided that a standard for the linkage and compatibility of asynchronous WCDMA, WiBro and CDMA-2000 networks would be set by December of this year.

The Wireless Connection Networking Group (Vice Chairman: Lee Hyeon-wu, Senior Researcher for Samsung Electronics), a subsidiary of TTA that is in charge of development of standards for 3GPP wireless connection technology;

o Decided to complete the development of next generation standards (LTE Standards) for W-CMDA technology, which will increase the connection speeds of 50 Mbps for upload and 100 Mbps for download by the end of this year, thus enabling WCDMA download speeds from current 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps.

o Selected work areas to developed standards for the base station performance assessment to support the next generation standards (LTE Standards) of W-CDMA technology.

The Service Structure Team (TSG-SA, Vice Chairman: Kim Gi-yeong, Researcher at LG Electronics), a subsidiary of TTA that is in charge of the development of 3GPP service standards;

o Decided to work on the standardization of Common IMS that will allow internet protocol to be applied in the WCDMA network to offer voice, data and multimedia service.

o Decided on transferring TISPAN, ETSI’s fixed and mobile network convergence standardization project that began in July of this year, to 3GPP so that the standardization work for convergence done only in Europe can now be studied internationally, thus accelerating the fixed and mobile convergence.

As a result of this conference, the creation of a terminal which allows for linkage between the next generation WCDMA network and the WiBro network became possible, which will relieve consumers of the inconvenience of having to carry multiple terminals and allowing access to a more evolved, user-friendly next generation telecommunications service.

Approximately 350 people including members of various standardization bodies from Korea, Europe, China, U.S. and Japan as well as various industry experts attended the conference. The next 3GPP Conference is set to be held from September 11th to September 20th of this year in Riga, Latvia.