News and Press Releases

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.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 17 February 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Technical Committee on Data Solutions (TC DATA) aimed at advancing data-driven technologies and supporting the development of new industry standards. TC DATA will provide a center of expertise in data infrastructures, services, and applications, developing data solutions specifically designed to support services for IoT, telecommunications systems and networks, as well as human services and other industries.

The TC DATA will also develop technical standards to support data interoperability and semantic interoperability.

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

ETSI announces the appointment of Martin Chatel as Chief Policy Officer

Sophia Antipolis, France - 10 February 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Chatel as Chief Policy Officer, who will lead the Policy Affairs Department at ETSI. Martin Chatel will join ETSI on 10 February 2025 and will be based in Brussels. As Chief Policy Officer, Martin Chatel will spearhead ETSI’s strategic policy engagement with the European Commission, EFTA, CEPT, international policymakers, societal stakeholders, and industry associations, under the leadership of ETSI Director-General Jan Ellsberger.

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, 28 January 2025

ETSI has announced the establishment of a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) focused on Multiple Access Techniques (MAT) for 6G mobile systems. The group aims to build industry consensus on innovative multiple access techniques, based on 3GPP specifications.

The ISG MAT will explore candidate techniques such as Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA), Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) that enhance the transmission efficiency across parameters such as spectrum efficiency, power consumption, latency and user fairness. Relevant deployment environments considered in the ISG MAT are indoor hotspot, urban macro (e.g., High Demand Density areas) and rural settings. The ISG MAT will concentrate on downlink multiple access techniques for the physical layer of the 3GPP radio interface.

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, 15 January 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release SEVENTEEN, a Standard non‑LTS release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release SEVENTEEN means the consolidation of the new architecture and scope introduced in the previous release, positioning OSM as a generalized cloud‑native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms and services. The full cloud-native management of Kubernetes clusters introduced in Release SIXTEEN for public clouds has been extended to private clouds based on Openstack, following the same intent‑based GitOps model where every operation related to the clusters or the applications running on them is done through Git repositories.