The Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) Association says ensuring the global availability of new and developing wireless services will be one of its key strategic goals this year.
CEO Rob Conway said in a statement the primary goal is to accelerate the global roll-out and interoperability of advanced mobile multimedia services, with emphasis on speeding the introduction of 3G services throughout the world.
"We are reinvigorating the core principles behind GSM`s phenomenal success, where the unique blending of operator strategy setting and guidance at the most senior executive levels and strong vendor commitment have brought the GSM world to the doorstep of breaking the one billion customer mark."
Conway said one of the GSM`s aims will be to inject strategic, market-based focus to the definition of collectively identified operator needs, to condense timescales for new product and service offerings, and enhance the simplicity and seamless availability of new services delivered to customers.
"These are the keys that will unlock even further success for the GSM industry. We will look to help the industry by unifying the voice that speaks on behalf of our community to vendors, suppliers and the standards bodies. We are looking at a shortlist of specific activities - some of which are too sensitive to reveal at this stage."
He said accelerating multimedia message service interoperability is a high priority for the association, which will look at helping to drive and define terminal interoperability, availability and usability, ensuring that new services can be delivered as simply and quickly as possible throughout the world to encourage increased mobile service uptake and usage.
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