ATIS Partners with 3GPP to Host Major LTE Conference in Dallas in January
and LTE Webinar in December

October 14, 2008, Washington – ATIS, in partnership with 3GPP, announces that it will host the ATIS-3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) Conference at the Westin City Center in Dallas, Texas on January 26–27, 2009. The two-day conference entitled, “Toward Mobile Broadband,” gives senior decision-makers, network architects, system integrators, core network engineers, network planners, business development representatives, as well as mobile operators, vendors, media and analyst firms in the Americas the opportunity to learn about new technologies involved in the migration path for LTE.

“While the industry cannot predict all of the effects of the migration to LTE, the knowledge to be gained at our LTE Conference is designed to provide vendors, operators, and manufacturers a competitive advantage in developing their migration path,” said Susan Miller, President and CEO of ATIS.

At the conference, strategic topics to be covered in panel discussions, plenary sessions, and initial trial results reports will include: the vision behind LTE as a next generation mobile broadband network, advantages of LTE for end users and operators, trends in the U.S. market, technical and strategic challenges for LTE, and lessons learned from 3G to enable successful LTE deployments. In addition, ATIS and 3GPP are pleased to announce that 3G Americas, will host a two and a half hour session entitled, “HSPA+ and LTE Executive Briefing” on the second day of the LTE Conference.

Before the conference you are invited to prep yourself on key LTE issues at the upcoming ATIS Webinar “Setting the Standard for Mobile Broadband at the Global Level,” to be held on Thursday, December 4 at 1:00 EST. This event, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent, is free of charge. Specifically to be covered are the LTE standards that the 3GPP has developed to take the user experience to the next level. Featured speaker Adrian Scrase, Head Mobile Competence Center, 3GPP, will discuss the robust specifications providing the implementation platform that is the deployment “backbone” for global mobile broadband. In addition, a representative from Alcatel-Lucent will discuss the future of LTE. For more information, please visit: http://www.atis.org/infosync.shtml

For more on the ATIS-3GPP LTE Conference, visit: www.atis.org/LTE or contact Lois Rude, Education and Conference Manager for ATIS at lrude@atis.org.

About ATIS
ATIS is a technical planning and standards development organization that is committed to providing leadership for, and the rapid development and promotion of, worldwide technical and operations standards for information, entertainment and communications technologies using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 300 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 22 industry committees and Incubator Solutions Program. www.atis.org

About 3GPP
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998. The collaboration agreement brings together a number of telecommunications standards bodies known as “Organizational Partners.” The current Organizational Partners are ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TTA, and TTC. The establishment of 3GPP was formalized in December 1998 by the signing of the “The 3rd Generation Partnership Project Agreement”. www.3GPP.org

A permanent project support group, called the “Mobile Competence Centre (MCC),” has been established to ensure the efficient day-to-day running of 3GPP. The MCC is based at the ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France.