News and Press Releases

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 4 December 2013

Intelligent Transport System standards tested for innovative safety critical car-to-car communication

ETSI, in collaboration with ERTICO, has organized the latest in a series of Plugtests™ interoperability events for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Cooperative Systems. This event was hosted by CETECOM, from 25 to 29 November in Essen, Germany.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 3 December 2013

ETSI and the ULE Alliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to align their work on development and promotion of the DECT™ ULE standard. The agreement was signed at the ETSI General Assembly held on 19 and 20 November 2013 in Mandelieu, near Cannes, France.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 27 November 2013

The ETSI Future Mobile Summit held on 21 November 2013 in Mandelieu, near Cannes, France, gathered high level experts from the research and academic community, industry leaders and the European Commission to discuss the next generation of mobile technology which will be developed to succeed the 4G systems currently being deployed.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 22 November 2013

ETSI members have elected Mr. Peter Statev as the Vice Chair of the ETSI General Assembly representing the user members of ETSI. Mr. Statev was nominated by UEAPME, the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, a new member of ETSI.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 20 November 2013

A new book has been published and made available for free detailing the technological and organizational steps taken during the development GSM™, UMTS™ and LTE™ from 1982 to 2012, at ETSI and 3GPP™.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 12 November 2013

Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) recognized by India's DoT, Ministry of Communication & IT

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 30 October 2013

The User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing builds a new testing community with practitioners from numerous application areas

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 18 October 2013

Several standards under development to improve environmental impact and energy efficiency of ICT.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 14 October 2013

ETSI has published the first five specifications on Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV). This is a major milestone towards the use of NFV to simplify the roll-out of new network services, reduce deployment and operational costs and encourage innovation.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 27 June 2013

The ETSI IPR Special Committee (IPR SC) met at the ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France from 18-20 June 2013, during which the topics of transfer of patent ownership, injunctive relief, reciprocity, and dispute about whether licensing terms and conditions are Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) were discussed.