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Sophia Antipolis, 31 March 2025

ETSI and TTA, the Telecommunication Technology Association of South Korea, are pleased to announce the renewal of their cooperation agreement. The signing ceremony, held on 25 March at ETSI’s facilities, was attended by Mr. Seung-hyun Son, President of TTA and Mr. Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director-General. This agreement reaffirms a partnership that dates back to 1992, evolving from an initial Memorandum of Understanding to the current, robust Cooperation Agreement.

Sophia Antipolis, 26 March 2025

ETSI is pleased to unveil its 2025 ETSI Fellows who were announced at the 85th ETSI General Assembly on 25 March. The awards ceremony took place at the Meridien hotel, located in the beautiful settings of the famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice, in the South of France. Serge Raes and Alex Leadbeater were unanimously nominated as ETSI Fellows for their outstanding personal contributions to the organization by the Awards committee, composed of the GA Chair and Vice-Chairs, the Board Chair and the ETSI Director-General.

Brussels, 21 March 2025

The European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, together with ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, successfully co-hosted the 9th Cybersecurity Standardisation Conference on 20 March 2025 in Brussels.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 11 March 2025

With over 109,000 attendees from 205 countries gathering in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress (MWC) once again proved to be a key destination for ETSI.

Europe to Establish Presence in Five Countries to Strengthen Cooperation on ICT Standardization

Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 February 2025 - Are you the experts we are looking for?

The Global Partnership for Human-Centric ICT Standardization Project (GIST) was officially launched on 06 Feb 2025 at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), marking a significant step towards strengthening global collaboration on ICT standardization, as part of the EU’s Global Gateway initiative.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 17 February 2025

While Paris became the artificial intelligence (AI) capital of the world during the AI Action Summit, ETSI held its AI conference, How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI, at its premises. More than 160 face-to-face attendees from 22 countries engaged with experts who discussed the essential role of AI standards and how Standards Development Organizations can bring rationality to the AI debate.

Looking forward to the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event - Mobile World Congress 2025, March 3 - 6 in Barcelona.

Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director-General, will be taking to the stage as a featured speaker at the following sessions:

Session 2: Monetising Mobile Services with 5G-Advanced: mobile AI, networking slicing, and massive IoT
This session will explore how 5G-Advanced is unlocking new revenue streams for MNOs through innovations such as enhanced mobile AI, network slicing, and Massive IoT.
🗓️ Monday, March 3rd | ⏰ 17:00 - 18:30 | 📍 GSMA Summit Stage, Hall 6
👉 Registration: bit.ly/4gbgGi2

The Summit will explore the future evolution of 3GPP and O-RAN ALLIANCE architectures towards 6G. Jan Ellsberger will take part of a panel discussion about Regional Views on Open RAN Activity & Outlook.
🗓️ Tuesday, March 4th | ⏰ 11:35 - 12:15 | 📍 Partner Theatre 6, Hall 8 - 4YFN & Partner Theatres
👉 Registration: https://bit.ly/3CdJXef

Sophia Antipolis, France, 31 January 2025

ETSI announces the second Release of the open-source software platform developed by the Software Development Group OpenSlice. This Release continues to drive the evolution of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions, offering service providers and consumers a powerful framework for orchestrating and managing end-to-end (E2E) network services across private and public clouds.

Additionally, OpenSlice 2024Q4 builds on its comprehensive, service-based Operations Support System (OSS) capabilities to meet the evolving demands of the telecom industry. It extends developments beyond NaaS to embrace Telco Cloud scenarios, incorporating support for CAMARA and TMF Operate APIs. These enhancements enable the capability exposure essential for a contemporary Operator Platform.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 23 January 2025

ETSI SDG OpenCAPIF, the Software Development Group developing an open-source implementation of the Common API Framework (CAPIF) defined by 3GPP, has just launched their Release 2.0.0. This version has been upgraded to support CAPIF Release 18 Technical Specifications from 3GPP and the associated YAML templates available in the 3GPP Forge.

This new Release also introduces significant updates, enhancements, and new features aimed at providing a more robust, secure, and efficient API management platform.

Sophia Antipolis, November 18, 2024

The status of Open Source as a mature component of the standardization landscape and as a tool of choice for research and product development has shone through the agenda of this week’s Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services - SNS4SNS - event.

A mix of presentations, tutorials, Hackfests, posters, demos and social networking over three days has attracted over 100 experts to ETSI to explore the role of software development, advanced research and industry standards in next generation networks.