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New GSMA VoLTE specification removes market fragmentation
Friday 29 July, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | Volte Digest
David O’Byrne, IP Communications Project Director, GSMA Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is one of the foundational next-generation communications services that global operators are providing to their customers, along with Video over LTE (ViLTE), Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) and ...
Feature: Asia’s Olympic-sized 5G ambitions
Friday 22 July, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Mobile World Live reviews the push by Asia’s mobile industry to launch ‘5G’ networks in time for the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics. What services can we expect, and what are the challenges ahead? View the video on Mobile World Live.
Universal Profile Gains Momentum
Wednesday 20 July, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
GSMA INITIATIVE TO DRIVE GLOBAL ADOPTION OF UNIVERSAL PROFILE FOR RICH COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES GAINS MOMENTUM Universal RCS Profile Backed by 57 Mobile Operators and Leading Handset Manufacturers; Service Will Deliver Enhanced Communications Experiences to Customers ...
GSMA supports European Commission’s efforts to accelerate 5G development in Europe
Monday 11 July, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Brussels: The GSMA announced its support of the “5G Manifesto for Timely Deployment of 5G in Europe”, which was presented at a meeting today between Commissioner Oettinger and CEOs from across the telecommunications and applications industries. The 5G Manifesto is designed ...
Network 2020 highlights from Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2016
Monday 4 July, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Record attendance at Mobile World Congress Shanghai was reported with more than 53,000 attendees, a 33% increase over 2015. Network 2020 highlights included: Press releases There were two main announcements during the event in Shanghai showing the progress and importance of ...
Real-World Impact of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) – new paper
Thursday 30 June, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
A new paper, published by Intel, explores Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). The impact of MEC on the mobile subscriber’s experience is so profound that MEC has become an integral part of 4G networks around the world. To illustrate the effect of MEC, this paper describes the ...
NEW Report on the Future of Mobile Communications
Tuesday 28 June, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
28 June 2016: New Report Highlights Growing Demand for Operator-led Advanced Communications Services Such as Pre-Calling, Instant Messaging and Real-time Video. Global mobile subscribers are demanding richer, global and open IP-based messaging experiences from mobile network ...
3Cinteractive Partners with the GSMA to Develop RCS
Tuesday 28 June, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
3C Interactive Partners with the GSMA to lead the Development of RCS Advanced Messaging for Businesses and Consumers 3C Interactive (3C), a leading provider of mobile technology enablement and marketing services, announced it is working with the GSMA on developing guidelines ...
The future of All-IP to be explored at Mobile World Congress 2016
Monday 20 June, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
All-IP is the network of the future, and the GSMA’s Network 2020 programme has a crucial role to play in its development. With operators, OEMs, network vendors and other ecosystem partners all keen to identify new revenue opportunities, Network 2020 works alongside these key ...
GSMA supports Russian Operators in move to IP communications
Thursday 12 May, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
You may remember a recent blogpost highlighting our ongoing work with Russia’s mobile network operators MegaFon, MTS, Tele2 and VimpelCom (Beeline), as well as the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. We created a dedicated working group to ...
Full accreditation for LG, Samsung and Sony
Tuesday 12 April, 2016 | Digest | Latest News
LG, Samsung and Sony have received full accreditation to CPR (Crane Priority Release) at the recent Meta test event in Dusseldorf. CPR includes features of RCS and Enriched Calling and enables end-users to access a revolutionary call and message experience. These successful ...
Network 2020 highlights from Mobile World Congress 2016
Friday 18 March, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Visitors to the mobile industry’s premier event surpassed the 100,000 mark for the first time in the event’s history. Some of the Network 2020 highlights were: RCS: The Path to One Billion Users We started the week with an announcement and a seminar supporting RCS adoption: ...
WebRTC to complement IP Communication Services – new WebRTC whitepaper
Tuesday 23 February, 2016 | Digest | Latest News
Mobile operators can leverage WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) technology in several ways. Mobile operators could use WebRTC to extend the capabilities of their IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)-based infrastructures and expose their services to a larger number of customers ...
Global operators, Google and the GSMA align behind adoption of Rich Communication Services
Sunday 21 February, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Global operators, the GSMA and Google today announced the launch of a mobile industry initiative to accelerate the availability of Rich Communications Services (RCS). The initiative will enable all operators worldwide to provide an open, consistent, and globally ...
Unlocking Commercial Opportunities from 4G Evolution seminar
Saturday 20 February, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
MWC Seminar: Unlocking Commercial Opportunities from 4G Evolution: Wednesday 24 February, 14:30 – 16:30. Which technology driver will be the winning platform to unlock commercial opportunities for 4G evolution to 5G? Join our interactive seminar to hear the debate and ...
GSMA Helping Russian Mobile Operators Line Up All-IP Communications Services
Thursday 4 February, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Our Network 2020 programme recently sent a team to Moscow to discuss how we could help Russian operators deliver interconnected all-IP communications services to their customers. We met with the country’s main operators Beeline, MegaFon, MTS and Tele2, as well as The ...
Are you providing a quality LTE roaming experience?
Thursday 21 January, 2016 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Read our report to find out how to test and benchmark your service. The Global Roaming Quality (GRQ) Pilot Project has been setup by GSMA’s Network 2020 programme and the Networks Group to encourage roaming implementation and establish a consistent standard of quality. The ...
South Korea’s Interconnected VoLTE Service Lifts Off
Wednesday 2 December, 2015 | Digest | Latest News | Volte Digest
All of the country’s VoLTE-enabled subscribers are now fully commercially interoperable. This will impact around 35 million subscribers who will be able to enjoy higher quality calls and seamless switching between voice and video, as well as faster connection speeds on all ...
Shipment of IP communications-capable smartphones exceeding expectations
Friday 13 November, 2015 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Latest figures show that the availability of IP communications-capable smartphones is ahead of the GSMA forecast for 2015. Currently, shipment volumes of IP communications-capable native devices is an estimated 10% ahead of the year to date target. According to the GSMA, ...
KT Corporation and NTT DOCOMO land world’s first with launch of bilateral VoLTE service
Tuesday 20 October, 2015 | Digest | Latest News | Volte Digest
South Korea’s KT Corporation and Japan’s NTT DOCOMO have become the first network operators in the world to offer their customers a bilateral Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) roaming service. This will mean that customers of either network will have access to high quality, low-latency ...