Agenda General Assembly London, June 2002

1. Agenda General AssemblyLondon, June 2002 • Confirmation of new members and membership upgrades • Progress report • Financial plan • Meeting between mITF and WWRF • AoB

2. Confirmation of new members and membership upgrades I • Center for Usability Research & Engineering Austria • Crown Castle International UK • CSEM Switzerland • Deutsche Telecom Germany • Fujitsu Labs. UK • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Finland • Loughborough University UK • National Technical University of Athens Greece • Nera Research Norway • Portugal Telecom Portugal • Technical University of Catalonia Spain • Technical University of Delft The Netherlands • Telia Research Sweden • University of Florence Italy • University of Toronto Canada

3. Confirmation of new members and membership upgrades II • EURESCOM upgrade Germany • Nortel Networks upgrade Canada • Samsung upgrade Korea

4. WWRF - Objectives and scope • Major objectives • to contribute to the vision of the Wireless World • to develop and maintain a consistent vision of the Wireless World • to generate, identify, and promote research areas and technical and society trends for mobile and wireless systems towards a Wireless World • to identify and assess the potential of new technologies and trends for the Wireless World • to contribute to the definition of international and national research programs • Scope • concentrate on the definition of research items relevant to the future of mobile and wireless communications, including pre-regulatory impact assessments • WWRF is not a standardization body • invite world-wide participation and is open to all actors

5. WWRF - Organization • WWRF provides a global platform for academia and industry • to discuss results • to exchange of views • to identify areas where research is needed • to initiate global co-operation towards systems beyond 3G • Major objective of global co-operation is to achieve harmonization of views • WWRF is an open organization with global membership • WWRF is a contribution driven organization • Major deliverables • Book of Visions 2000 • Book of Visions 2001 • White papers on certain topics under preparation • Reference model • These deliverables will influence research projects on global scale

6. Expression of Interest I • Members of the WWRF Steering Board took the initiative to develop an “Expression of Interest” for a big initiative on systems beyond third generation mobile communications • Objectives of the European Commission • Increased impetus to Community's competitiveness or to address major societal needs • Mobilizing critical mass of research and technological development resources and competence • Each Integrated Project with clearly defined scientific and technological objectives • Integrated Projects may include more long-term or "risky" research • Combined activities of an Integrated Project may represent a financial size ranging from several million EUR to several tens of millions of EUR • To take into account socio-economic issues

7. Expression of Interest II • The development of third generation systems was mainly technology driven • Based on this experience the development towards systems beyond third generation should be user centric • Therefore, research work has to be done on • services and applications • networks and • radio in close co-operation to ensure a coherent system concept and to enable harmonization

8. Expression of Interest III • International activities on systems beyond 3G ongoing, e.g. in • ITU-R WP8F, ITU-T SSG and • in other regions (China, Japan and Korea) • Preliminary targets for research are currently being discussed • This is the basis for an intended new system concepts • Goal of the initiative to investigate and develop such a system concept including the necessary building blocks • With respect to entire system concept the scope of the EoI is rather wide towards a strategic initiative • Due to the limitation in space only limited technical information could be provided • Therefore, not all the detailed available valuable information could be included • This material will be necessary for a detailed proposal

9. WWIP – a great opportunity • EoI submitted by the Steering Board based on contributions of WWRF members • Large scale European initiative proposed – the largest ever • WWIP has raised the profile of the wireless sector in the Commission and the planning for Framework Program 6 • This foreground work can be used for similar initiatives in other regions • This initiative is based on WWRF achievements • WWRF and WWIP are two independent organizations • Planning for the WWIP has just started • WWIP will include non-WWRF members and WWRF member • Means for participation are own activity, invitation, open calls, ... • WWIP will secure the exploitation paths of a wide range of academic initiatives developed by the WWRF members

10. Structure WWIP

11. WWIP and other initiatives • Very similar EoI from operators in ETNO/EURESCOM • Both EoIs from WWRF Steering Board members and from ETNO/EURESCOM made a cross-reference to the other EoI • Both groups intend to submit a joint proposal for a big initiative • Project co-ordinators will be from all domains (manufacturers, operators, academia SMEs) • We are aware of a number of high potential NoXs and we invite them for close co-operation with WWIP • WWRF members which have no operations in Non EU member states can participate in the WWIP initiative based on special agreements between the EU and other countries

12. Meeting between mITF and WWRF • mIFT and WWRF organized a meeting accompanied by representatives of Japanese Government and European Commission in London on June 27, 2002 • Mutual presentation of both fora • Exchange of views on systems beyond 3G • Evaluation of potential areas of cooperation • Delegation of each group in the order of 12 to 15 participants