June 14, 2006
"3G for all" Program
At a meeting yesterday in India, the board of the GSM Association approved a "3G for all" program to bring 3G multimedia services and mobile Internet access to many more people in both the developed and the developing worlds. [Press Release]
"Over the next few months, a group of operator members of the GSMA plan to establish a core set of common requirements for 3G handsets to create the economies of scale that will allow mobile phone suppliers to rapidly bring down the cost of manufacturing these high-tech devices.
Under the initiative, which builds on the success of the GSMA's Emerging Market Handset programme, mobile phone suppliers will compete to design a 3G handset that meets the operators' common requirements.
The GSMA will endorse the winning handset, which will be widely deployed by operators participating in the program.
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