News and Press Releases

ETSI Headquarters, France 08 September 2010

ETSI's first Machine-to-Machine (M2M) standards workshop, scheduled for 19 to 20 October, looks set to be a huge success, with more than 130 delegates already registered. This high degree of interest reflects the enormous potential that is foreseen for M2M applications and technologies.

Beijing, China, 31 August 2010

The Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of South Korea and ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, today announced the renewal of their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This renewal confirms the willingness of two major standards development organizations to continue to share their work and expertise in order to contribute to the development of globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
The new undertaking was signed during the Global Standards Collaboration meeting in Beijing, an annual gathering of senior representatives of the world's leading ICT standards organizations.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 26 August 2010

'ICT revolutionizing the world of transport' is the theme of the ETSI 2010 Business Innovation Summit, which will take place in London on 5 and 6 October. It will address a broad range of topics from the transport domain, an area which is set to bring many opportunities and challenges for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industries in the coming years.

ETSI has launched a European Commission–funded project on a proactive approach to SME participation in standardization.  This project is known as STF 376. 

Results of this project will be presented at a workshop organized on the 8th of July 2010 in Vienna.  ETSI would like to invite you to attend this workshop, which is hosted by the Wirtschaftskammer Wien, UBIT (Unternehmensberater und Informationstechnologie,  Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Professional Association of Management Consultants and Information Technology).

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 6 July 2010

ETSI's newly-published European Standard for Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) has been declared a European "Community Specification" as a consequence of being listed in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on 26 June. It is the first standard from a European Standards Organisation to be listed as a Community Specification and provides essential requirements in support of the Single European Sky Interoperability Regulation for Air Traffic Management.

Brussels, 1 July 2010

The Seconded European Standardization Expert in India (SESEI) officially assumed his role to support the European Standards Organisations (ESOs) and promote European Standards in India as well as to provide feedback on Indian standardization. 

Brussels, Belgium – 29 June 2010

Green standardization is again in the spotlight with a new mandate given by the European Commission and EFTA, the European Free Trade Association, to the European Standards Organisations, CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization, and ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, regarding the charging of electric cars, scooters and bicycles. 

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 19 May 2010

The 2010 conference for users of the test specification language TTCN-3 will take place in Beijing, China, in June.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 18 May 2010 

With the focus on European Technology Platforms (ETPs) collaborating in addressing societal challenges,  the three European Standards Organizations, CEN (European Committee for Standardization), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) took the opportunity to establish the importance of standardization to foster research and development, when they participated in the ETP Conference and Exhibition ‘Working together on societal challenges'.  The conference and parallel-running exhibition were organized by the European Commission and took place in Brussels from 11 – 12 May.

ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 11 May 2010

NGMN Alliance, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

ETSI and NGMN are pleased to announce the creation of a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) to develop an interface specification enabling interoperability between elements of base stations of cellular mobile network equipment.