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Data Protection & Privacy – GSMA Industry Position
Tuesday 27 January, 2015 |
To realise the opportunities that the IoT offers, it is important that consumers trust the companies who are delivering IoT services and collecting data about them. The GSMA and its members believe that consumer confidence and trust can only be fully achieved when users feel ...
Maximising Effectiveness of Smart City Policies
Thursday 23 February, 2017 |
This paper is intended for planners and decision makers in central and local government who are involved in smart city initiatives. It aims to summarise best practice in the planning, funding and implementation of smart city applications so that their benefits can be more ...
Mobile IoT Initiative
Wednesday 7 June, 2017 |
To support the further growth and development of the Internet of Things (the IoT) the mobile industry is developing and standardising a new class of GSM technologies. LPWA networks will support devices requiring low mobility, low power consumption, long range, low cost and ...
Connecting Vehicles Today and in the 5G Era with C-V2X
Saturday 21 September, 2019 |
“Backed by a strong and diverse ecosystem of suppliers, C-V2X is commercially available and poised for widespread deployment in both vehicles and roadside infrastructure. Extensive testing and trials have demonstrated that C-V2X is consistently more reliable than alternative ...
IoT’s Contribution to Economic Growth
Wednesday 7 August, 2019 |
IoT significantly increases productivity: by as much as 0.2% of GDP already, and growing. Over half of these benefits are enjoyed by manufacturing businesses, making it the sector currently with the largest opportunity from using IoT. The potential gains for businesses in ...
Making smart cities and IoT a reality in Latin America: a quick guide for decision-makers
Tuesday 4 December, 2018 |
The Internet of Things brings about an enormous opportunity for Latin America. The total revenue opportunity for the region by 2023 is USD 33 billion, according to GSMA Intelligence. However, the overall impact on GDP is likely to be a lot more substantial. For Brazil alone, ...
Assessing regulatory requirements of privacy management for members offering IoT services using personal data
Monday 26 November, 2018 |
The document aim is to documenting and assessing regulatory requirements for GSMA members offering IoT services utilizing personal data. It looks into the privacy regulatory requirements in some key jurisdictions likely to influence other regulatory regimes around the world: ...
GSMA position on GSMA position on shared Mobile Network Code (MNC)
Wednesday 21 February, 2018 |
MNC numbering allocation policies enabling the use of shared MNC should be carefully assessed in light of their implementation costs, and their technical and logistical complexities. The GSMA believes that its specification for remote provisioning of Embedded SIMs is more ...
The Role of Mobile in the Drone Ecosystem
Tuesday 19 December, 2017 |
The recent Mobile Meetings Series event “The age of drones: new digital ecosystem for connectivity and economic growth” gathered key EU stakeholders to discuss the future, the regulatory challenges, the essential requirements for civil drones and the importance of mobile ...
Safer and Smarter Driving: the Rollout of Cellular V2X Services in Europe
Monday 25 September, 2017 |
The GSMA calls upon European legislators to keep future decisions on the vehicle-to-vehicle communications technology neutral. Connected vehicles and Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) are nurtured in a fast-evolving technology environment. The mobile industry ...
GSMA Regulatory Position on Drones
Wednesday 13 September, 2017 |
This consultation response explains the benefits of cellular connectivity in more detail before identifying potential barriers to cellular connectivity that regulators should be aware of. Much technical work is happening in the drone ecosystem. In the last part of this ...
Mobile Policy Handbook – Consumer Protection Section
Wednesday 19 July, 2017 |
GSMA is committed to working with stakeholders to ensure that restrictions to cross data transfer are minimised, while safe-guarding personal data and privacy of individuals. This is covered within GSMA’s Mobile Policy Handbook, which is updated yearly. To see the position, ...
Supporting Mobile IoT adoption through service and technology neutral regulatory frameworks
Wednesday 19 July, 2017 |
NB-IoT Is one of the three technologies part of the ‘Mobile IoT’. It is a narrowband radio technology capable of addressing the connectivity requirements of IoT devices in most licensed spectrum bands. It can be deployed in three modes: in-band, standalone and guard-band in ...
Unleashing the Power of Global IoT Data
Sunday 26 February, 2017 |
The technology we use in our lives constantly generates data. With 90% of the world’s data having been produced over the last two years, there is an exciting opportunity to create next generation IoT solutions. In this short video, discover how the GSMA plans to realise the ...
GSMA Public Policy Position – Spectrum for the Internet of Things
Monday 30 January, 2017 |
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a hugely important and rapidly growing market with the potential to transform the digital economy. Mobile services play an important role in the wide area IoT market and are rapidly evolving to meet an growing array of different requirements – ...
Digital Healthcare Interoperability Report
Monday 17 October, 2016 |
To realise the projected healthcare benefits of Digital Health solutions, interoperability is required at foundational, structural and, most importantly, semantic levels. This enables the secure, reliable and consistent exchange of data between devices, applications and ...
GSMA Intelligence – Cellular M2M forecasts 2010-2020
Tuesday 6 September, 2016 |
The research shows that at the current rate of trajectory, global cellular M2M connections will reach 974 million by 2020, growing at 26% per year (CAGR) in the period between 2014 and 2020. The research look into CAGR for different regions and countries in there world and ...
GSMA Public Policy Position – 5G Spectrum
Friday 19 August, 2016 |
This paper updates the GSMA’s key 5G spectrum positions. It is available in English, French and Spanish, and focuses on the areas where governments, regulators and the mobile industry should cooperate to make 5G a success. Download (English) Download (French) Download (Spanish)
PTS report on numbering
Tuesday 9 August, 2016 |
The focus of this study is the expected shortage of MNC resources and possible solutions, in particular the possible mixed use of 2 and 3 digit MNCs under Sweden’s mobile country code (MCC) 240. The study has been carried out by Cybercom on behalf of the Swedish Post and ...
Digital Health: A Call for Government Leadership and Cooperation between ICT and Health
Wednesday 30 March, 2016 |
The Broadband Commission Working Group on Digital Health released a report early 2017, co-chaired by Nokia and the Novartis Foundation with Commissioners including GSMA, and external health experts. The report advocates for governments to take action on national digital ...
GSMA IoT Device connection efficiency guidelines
Wednesday 30 March, 2016 |
In IoT scenarios IoT Device firmware and software play a significant part in determining the overall performance and behaviour of the IoT Service on the mobile network. With no human intervention to fall back upon, the mechanisms that manage recovery from IoT Service failure ...
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
Saturday 12 March, 2016 |
The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) provides scientific advice and guidance on the health and environmental effects of non-ionizing radiation (NIR) to protect people and the environment. The ICNIRP guidelines for EMF are the basis of ...
Connected car emerging trends and market predictions
Thursday 7 January, 2016 |
A presentation (delivered at GSMA Connected Car Forum in January 2016) covering i) key analyst predictions on the connected car industry, ii) how the connected car will transform smart cities, iii) Automotive Cyber Security, iv) Autonomous Driving and v) CES developments in ...
Small Cells and Health
Tuesday 15 December, 2015 |
This brochure has been designed to answer questions you may have about small cells. We have all read or heard about concerns raised from time to time regarding the safe use of radio waves and wireless communications equipment. The wireless industry takes these concerns ...
Epic Tour Tests Mobile Health report
Wednesday 29 July, 2015 |
The 2015 mHealth Grand Tour from Brussels to Geneva was a field trial on an international cross-border scale. More than 23 cyclists with Type 1 diabetes were among over 100 riders from 22 nations to take part in the 1,500 kilometer route incorporating more than 22,000 meters ...
IoT Data Protection and Privacy
Friday 27 February, 2015 |
To realise the opportunities that the IoT offers, it is important that consumers trust the companies who are delivering IoT services and collecting data about them. The GSMA and its members believe that consumer confidence and trust can only be fully achieved when users feel ...
India M2M Roadmap: Avaliable Market Consultations on IoT
Thursday 8 January, 2015 |
In January 2015, the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DOT) published a first draft of the National Telecom M2M Roadmap. The document provides a comprehensive introduction to the M2M ecosystem and describes DOT’s preliminary views on IoT policy and regulatory issues ...
GSMA position for periodic technical inspections
Wednesday 12 November, 2014 |
The GSMA proposed approach to periodic technical inspections, recommended options include the reservation of fixed numbers for test calls or capturing all calls coming from the vehicle and routing to a dedicated device for testing. GSMA position for periodic technical ...
Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (IBPT)
Saturday 8 November, 2014 |
In this paper the ECC recommends that: • “A country should refuse the assignment of E.164 numbers belonging to its numbering plan to be used outside of its territory on a permanent basis • A country should not allow the use of E.164 numbers belonging to another country’s ...
LTE Technology and Health – Radio Frequency of LTE Devices
Saturday 8 March, 2014 |
This report examines the requirements for compliance with human exposure standards for electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that may affect the use of embedded modules based on the GSM family of technologies generally operating at frequencies in the range 700 MHz to 3.5 GHz. Download
Mobile Privacy: Consumer research insights and considerations for policymakers
Thursday 27 February, 2014 |
The growth in mobile broadband connections has been fuelled by higher speed networks and more advanced technologies. Additionally, the proliferation of new apps and services are allowing people to connect with each other, devices and other ‘smart’ objects (such as cars, home ...
UNESCO Mobile Learning Guidelines
Saturday 7 December, 2013 |
This set of guidelines seeks to help policy-makers better understand what mobile learning is and how its unique benefits can be leveraged to advance progress towards Education for All. Developed in consultation with experts in over twenty countries, the guidelines below have ...
Extra territorial use of numbering resources: (April 2013)-ECC/CEPT report 194
Tuesday 30 April, 2013 |
In this paper the ECC recommends that: • A country should refuse the assignment of E.164 numbers belonging to its numbering plan to be used outside of its territory on a permanent basis. • A country should not allow the use of E.164 numbers belonging to another country’s ...
Global views on potential of mobile health solutions to address chronic disease challenges
Wednesday 7 November, 2012 |
In this white paper, we discuss some of the results from a large multi-country end user survey of HCPs, patients with chronic disease (diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and general wellness consumers (adults with a high level of interest in health and wellness who do not ...
Understanding medical device regulation for mHealth – A guide for mobile operators
Tuesday 7 February, 2012 |
This document serves as a guide to the GSMA and its members on the evolving realm of medical device regulation as it applies to mobile healthcare. It also provides a more detailed overview of the regulatory landscape of mobile health in US and EU, and their implications ...
Embedded Modules: Compliance and Compatibility
Sunday 11 December, 2011 |
This report examines the requirements for compliance with human exposure standards for electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that may affect the use of embedded modules based on the GSM family of technologies generally operating at frequencies in the range 700 MHz to 3.5 GHz Download
Mobile Health, Who Pays?
Tuesday 1 February, 2011 |
Whilst mobile health has huge potential to improve healthcare delivery and provide revenue for service providers, achieving broad uptake and monetizing this potential has proved difficult to achieve. This forty-four page report seeks to shed light on this critical issue and ...
GSMA Mobile Privacy Principles
Saturday 22 January, 2011 |
In January 2011, the GSMA published a set of universal Mobile Privacy Principles that describe the way in which mobile consumers’ privacy should be respected and protected when consumers use mobile applications and services that access, collect and use personal information. ...
ECC Report 153, Numbering and Addressing In Machine-To-Machine (M2M) Communications, Nov 2010
Tuesday 30 November, 2010 |
This report is the ECC ruling on numbering for machine-to-machine communication. Among others key issues, the report makes some recommendations: “(…) 3. Four numbering options were discovered for M2M applications: A) Existing mobile number ranges, B) A new number range, C) ...