The Open Handset Alliance™ is made up of more than 30 mobile industry leaders who are working together to develop the Android™ platform. Android is a complete mobile phone software stack. It includes everything a manufacturer or operator needs to build a mobile phone. Android will be made available as open source via the Apache v2 license. For more information, visit www.openhandsetalliance.com.
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998. The collaboration agreement brings together a number of telecommunications standards bodies which are known as “Organizational Partners”. The current Organizational Partners are ARIB, CCSA, ETSI, ATIS, TTA, and TTC.
The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 260 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing global standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services. Services using DVB standards are available on every continent with more than 120 million DVB receivers deployed.
The FLO Forum was established to join business leaders involved in developing FLO-based networks, products and services for the wireless industry. Membership provides the opportunity to collaborate; to understand end user requirements; to generate technical specifications for submission to global standards and regulatory bodies; and to consider the factors that drive success in extending brand, services, and products to target audiences.
IMTC is a worldwide community of companies dedicated to the advancement of real-time, rich-media communications. Interoperability through international standards is our core value. Member companies come together to ensure compatibility amongst their products and services, thus guaranteeing trouble-free operation for both end customers and service suppliers.
LiMo Foundation™ is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders working together within an open and transparent governance model—with shared leadership and shared decision making—to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform based upon mobile Linux for use by the whole mobile industry.
The Mobile DTV Alliance is an open industry consortium that focuses on promoting the best practices and open standards to deliver premium-quality broadcast television to mobile TV devices in North America. The alliance includes leading companies from across the mobile business system and entertainment value chain.
The mission of the M-PEG Industry Formun is to further the adoption of M-PEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users.
Open Mobile Alliance facilitates global user adoption of mobile data services by specifying market driven mobile service enablers that ensure service interoperability across devices, geographies, service providers, operators, and networks, while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.
