ETSI and South Korea’s TTA reassert standards collaboration

AUGUST 31, 2010 -- The Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of South Korea and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have renewed their memorandum of understanding (MoU) to share their work and expertise to further develop globally applicable standards for information and communications technologies (ICT).

The MOU renewal was signed during the Global Standards Collaboration meeting in Beijing, an annual gathering of senior representatives of the world's leading ICT standards organizations.

The original MoU between TTA, the Korean ICT standardization association, and ETSI was established in 1992. The agreement was last renewed in 2005.

TTA and ETSI say they have many common areas where the work of the two organizations intersects at the point where specifications and standards development meet. The agreement is designed to ensure a high level of alignment between the two organizations and their respective regions.

In the expected life span of the new MoU, TTA and ETSI and their respective secretariats will work together to stimulate collaboration on such areas as intelligent transport systems, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and digital multimedia broadcasting.

“While reviewing the text of the MoU, TTA recognized that ETSI and TTA are covering more areas where there is scope for cooperation, including mobile communication aspects such as IMT-Advanced and 3GPP, and next-generation networks such as M2M, intelligent transport systems, cloud computing, and TETRA. I believe these areas are essential for both organizations and certainly ones where we can be the international standardization leaders,” said Keun Hyeob Lee, TTA president.

ETSI's Director-General, Walter Weigel, remarked, "ETSI is committed to ensuring global collaboration with all the important standardization organizations of the world. TTA is unquestionably one of our long-standing partners with whom we have collaborated very effectively in the past, especially in the big success story of 3GPP. I am therefore delighted by the renewal of the MoU with TTA and I am confident that this collaboration will lead to many benefits for the development of ICT standards with worldwide impact."

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