Welcome to the second week in standards.

This week we have a range of announcements from Telecoms, Cloud, Privacy and other domains

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While a lot of attention has been placed on the growing standards war for next generation wireless network standards between LTE and WiMAX – for instance see here and here – a number of interesting developments have been made regarding the Chinese developed outsider TD-LTE.

TD-LTE is a standard for wireless mobile networks and 4G candidate which has been developed by China Mobile, building upon the TD-SCDMA 3G standard. The TD-LTE stems from China’s indigenous innovation policy which seeks to reduce China’s reliance upon foreign IPR by supporting the use of domestic alternatives. (Don’t miss the upcoming Talkstandards open forum for further discussion on China’s standards policy).
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Last week, I was in Amsterdam as a speaker/analyst at the LTE world series in Amsterdam which is a top Telecoms conference especially for the Operator community. LTE is about ‘Beyond 3G’ networks and that’s an area with lots of standardization discussions (see here and here). At Amsterdam, there were two relevant themes for TalkStandards. I will cover one here (Voice standardization in 4G networks) and I will create a separate post for the other (IPR issues for 4G networks).

There is an informal joke in Telecoms circles which goes like this: When we created 3G we forgot about data, when we created 4G we forgot about voice!

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The interjection of nationalist politics into standards setting, particularly in areas where global technological coordination is important for increasing the supply of and access to public goods, is of considerable concern. Globalization of trade, investment and technology flows places increasing pressures on national regulations of all kinds, ranging from competition regulation to financial standards such as capital requirements. Whether and how these regulations should be subject to greater multilateral or global coordination is a central policy issue.

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In December last year two wireless mobile networks, compliant with the LTE next generation mobile network standard (see the previous blog post here), were rolled out in the Scandinavian capitals Stockholm and Oslo by network provider TeliaSonera. While the LTE standard, which offers considerably faster connection speeds relative to the current 3G technologies, is widely backed by Governments and Network Providers, the TeliaSonera networks were the world’s first publically available networks utilizing the new technology and market a significant mile stone for the new technology.
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Wireless communication technologies have seen significant development over the last decade. This is true both for mobile, where 3G technologies W-CDMA and cdma2000 have altered the way we are able to use our cell phones, and stationary systems, where Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Bluetooth have enabled device communication over the air instead of cables. Standardization has had an instrumental role in this developments (for a more extensive discussion see wirelessstandards2009-08-19final).
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