News and Press Releases

Sophia Antipolis, 25 August 2016

Major standards organizations from around the world agree to work together to help move cities faster to greater smartness

In the wake of the World Smart City Forum, which was held on 13 July 2016 in Singapore, representatives of IEC, ISO, ITU, IEEE, CEN-CENELEC and ETSI gathered for a meeting initiated by the IEC. This, meeting was a global first and part of an ongoing dialog among standards organizations.  The aim was to accelerate and better align Smart City standardization work, which is essential for successful Smart City deployment. Between 60% and 70% of humanity is expected to be living in urban environments by 2050. 

Sophia Antipolis, 28 July 2016

Diego Lopez, Telefonica, elected as ETSI NFV Chairman from 1 August 2016

ETSI’s Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) has renewed its leadership team and established a new structure to meet the demands of its forthcoming set of protocol and data model specifications.

Sophia Antipolis, 8 July 2016

The 4th User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing now on track!

ETSI's User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) 2016, now in its fourth year, is an annual and international conference dedicated to application aspects of automated testing including model-based testing, cloud testing, mobile testing, test methodologies, test management and standardized test specification by focusing on the practical challenges that are often faced in industry. Organized by ETSI, this year's event is hosted by Ericsson and Nokia in Budapest, in partnership with the Hungarian Testing Board on 26-28 October 2016.

Sophia Antipolis, 8 July 2016

Electronic signatures, electronic seals and electronic time-stamps support the digital economy

Since 1 July 2016 the major part of the European Union's (EU) eIDAS regulation applies. The eIDAS regulation is Regulation (EU) N°910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market.

Sophia Antipolis, 14 June 2016

Extensive work programme to prepare for new radio regulations in Europe

Yesterday, the new Radio Equipment Directive came into force in Europe. This major update of Europe’s single market rules for radio equipment was published in May 2014.

Sophia Antipolis, 6 June 2016

Join us on 13-17 June to debate the latest developments with global security experts

The Internet of Things presents new security challenges which are only now beginning to be addressed.

Sophia Antipolis, 31 May 2016

ETSI has unveiled a new Industry Specification Group, the Mobile and Broadcast Convergence (MBC) ISG.

Sophia Antipolis, 26 May 2016

Community grows to 30 members

ETSI’s Open Source MANO (OSM) initiative has today announced the availability of its Release 0 code package, a month ahead of schedule.

Sophia Antipolis, 12 May 2016

This week ETSI focused on moving “From Research to Standardization”, with a workshop bringing together research and standardization stakeholders in the context of the European Union’s H2020 research programme.

Sophia Antipolis, 12 May 2016

On 19 April 2016 during the 67th General Assembly dinner, ETSI awarded the first of its newly-launched ETSI Fellowship awards to Karsten Meinhold, Julian Pritchard and Karl Heinz Rosenbrock.