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Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL)

The UK government regulator for telecommunications services.

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

Defines common European telecommunications standards. Has adopted the W-CDMA standard from Ericsson as the preferred standard for the next generation of Universal Mobile Telephone Service (UMTS) phones, which is intended to be a single world wide standard. The US prefers the CDMA2000 standard developed by Qualcomm. In the acquisition of Qualcomm by Ericsson, it was agreed by the two parties that a near common standard will be adopted such that mobile phones could easily accommodate both standards.

WAP Forum

Is the organising committee for the Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP) standard. WAP uses Wireless Markup Language (WML), an enhanced sub-set of the full HTML standard used for the World Wide Web (WWW) pages.

Open Standards Gateway (OSG)

A body, composed mostly of telecommunications companies, defining standards for linking consumer and small business appliances to the internet, for example alarm systems, washing machines. It is Java based and aims to complement other standards such as Bluetooth, Jini, Windows CE.

Members include Alcatel, Cable and Wireless, Ericsson, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel, Oracle, Philips, Sun, Toshiba.

Infra-red D Association (IrDA)

An industry sponsored organisation promoting standards for infra-red communications and PC synchronisation.

Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG)

A trade organisation for defining standards for linking mobiles to laptops via wireless communications. The Bluetooth standard was initially developed by Ericsson. Later IBM, Intel, Nokia, Toshiba and a further 200 companies joined.

HomeRF

HomeRF is a consortium that has developed the Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP) for connecting home and small office appliances by wireless communications..

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Check) (IEEE)

The IEEE has established a wide variety of international standards, the most famous being the Ethernet Local Area Networking standard. It is working on 802.11, a form of wireless Ethernet. For wireless networking between home computers and entertainment and other devices there is the IEEE 1394 standard.

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