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ATIS Announces Corporate Sponsors of LTE Towards Mobile Broadband Conference

Major communications company leaders provide insight into the future of mobile broadband

November 17, 2008, Washington, DC - The Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions (ATIS) announces the sponsors of its first 2009 event, the ATIS-3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) Conference “Towards Mobile Broadband” being held at the Westin City Center in Dallas January 26–27, 2009. The LTE “Towards Mobile Broadband” sponsors include: Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Qualcomm, GENBAND, Bechtel and Nortel.

“LTE ‘Towards Mobile Broadband’ will provide valuable insights from key industry leaders into how the latest technology driving mobile broadband will impact operators, vendors and manufacturers,” said Susan Miller, President and CEO of ATIS. “We are pleased that many ATIS members are supporting the event as both sponsors and speakers.”

Through panel discussions, general sessions and the presentation of initial trial results, LTE “Towards Mobile Broadband” will demonstrate how this technology is transforming telecommunications’ future.

For more on the ATIS-3GPP LTE Conference, please 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 rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 300 communications companies are active in ATIS industry committees and Incubator Solutions Programs. For more information, please visit: 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”. Visit www.3GPP.org for more information.

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.