Benefits of GCF Membership

For the industry, by the industry Benefits of GCF Membership GCF has three principle All members benefit from being able to contribute to the debate on the technologies, membership categories: test criteria, test tools and test cases included in GCF’s “Test once, use anywhere” Operators & Associate certification scheme. Operators The strengths of the GCF Certification scheme benefit all members: Mobile World Congress Special Edition March 2015 • Any operator of a network • Common, relevant test requirements defined by the industry to meet market needs based on any 3GPP or • Sharing of best practice that promotes consistency of testing worldwide 3GPP2 technology • Avoidance of unnecessary duplication of interoperability, compatibility and Manufacturers Certification News functionality testing • Companies that produce • Fast adoption of new technologies into certification to ensure interoperability complete devices that are • A consistent certification scheme for mobile phones and all types of wireless devices. marketed under a brand Full Operator & Full Manufacturer Members can: name they own. • Propose new Work Items or Performance Items and nominate Rapporteurs for Work Meet the GCF Office Certification Explained Membership Matters • Associate manufacturers: Items or Performance Items. companies that wish to Professionals in the GCF Office Understand the principles that Find out about GCF’s certify wireless-connected Full Operator & Full Manufacturer and Observer Members enjoy additional benefits: support members in pursuing underpin GCF Certification membership categories and products that incorporate • Free attendance and voting rights at GCF meetings GCF’s objectives how to join GCF-certified modules. • The right to stand for election to the GCF Board or Chair/Vice Chair positions on the • Client Vendors: developers of Steering Group or Agreement Groups. Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 client application software Manufacturer Members can certify an unlimited number of devices. Associate Operators for 3GPP and/or 3GPP2 pay a daily delegate rate to attend meetings. devices. Observers M2M & IoT added to • Other companies that have a GCF Membership Fees for 2015 GCF’s objectives genuine interest in mobile Category Full Associate GCF's core objective remains to technologies including many Operator €11,000 assure the interoperability of test organisations. Manufacturer €11,000 €5,500 53 manufacturers certified a record 531 mobile devices in 2014. Overall, wireless products by offering a Observer €5,500 Scan here to certifications were 22.5 per cent higher than in 2013. globally-recognised industry Client Vendor €5,500 certification process which A supplementary Participation Fee is payable by members in GCF’s CDMA- download an The efficiencies realised by the “Test once, use anywhere” certification ensures compliance of products related activities. For 2015, the CDMA Participation Fee is 50 per cent of the application form scheme – which is recognised by a broad cross-section of the world’s leading annual fee for the relevant membership category. to agreed standards. operator groups – make an important contribution to expanding the global To contact GCF: * [email protected] In addition, GCF's current mobile phone market by increasing the choice of trusted devices. priorities are to: Q1 Q2 These efficiencies are set to • Promote increased use of CAG#41 / FTAG#38 CAG#42 / FTAG#39 GCF Certification in its 1Dubai, UAE, Jan 3Minneapolis, USA, Apr become even more valuable. In current markets CAG2 / TCAG2#6 CAG2 / TCAG2#7 2014, the “average “GCF- 2San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 4 • Promote adoption of GCF SG#62 SG#63 certified LTE devices certification by the mobile uOrlando, FL, USA, Mar vShanghai, China, Jun incorporated 4.4 FD LTE bands, industry in markets where it Mobile World Congress LTE Latin America Barcelona, Spain, Mar 2-‐5 Rio die Janeiro, Brazil, -‐ Apr 7 9 3.1 3G bands and 3.5 GSM is not presently used Indian Roundtable • Support industry's emerging Q3 New Delhi, India, Apr 15 bands. With FD LTE being M2M business models by CAG#43 / FTAG#40 M2M World Congress deployed in approaching 20 5Malaga, Spain, Jul London, UK, Apr 28-‐29 ensuring GCF Certification CAG2 / TCAG2#8 bands worldwide, devices will include more bands to support international LTE meets key industry needs 6Portland, OR, USA, Jul Q4 roaming. More widespread adoption of carrier aggregation – already included SG#64 CAG#44 / FTAG#41 GCF’s M2M Task Force is wGermany, Sep 7Beijing, China, Oct within GCF - will further add to device complexity. Certification will help seeking input from any M2M Mobile World Congress, Shanghai CAG2 / TCAG2#9 8 Shanghai, China, Jul -‐ 15 17 Dallas, TX, USA, Nov manufacturers and operators bring these sophisticated new devices to market. stakeholder to understand how CTIA Supermobility 2015 SG#65 / AGM#8 x certification can best contribute Las Vegas, USA, Sep 9-‐11 Italy, Dec to the success of M2M and the GCF Certification News is intended to provide an overview of the work of GCF and does not constitute a formal record of decisions taken at GCF meetings. Global Certification Forum www.globalcertificationforum.org Internet of Things. Please share Members can access official records of all the GCF meetings in members’ area of the GCF website. your thoughts. To receive your own copy of future editions of GCF Certification News, please sign-‐up at www.globalcertificationforum.org 20-‐22 Bedford Row 4 GCF Certification News, Mobile World Congress Special Edition, March 2015 London, WC1J 4JS, UK Test once, use anywhere use once, Test GCF Office members at MWC Committed GCF Certification – how it works Lars Nielsen, Steven Dumper, Technical A voluntary, industry-defined certification scheme focused on GCF certification follows the principles of a supplier’s declaration of General Manager Operations Manager interoperability between mobile handsets and networks. conformity (SDoC) as defined in ISO/IEC 17050. to minimising duplication of testing Working closely with Responsible for the GCF the Chair and Vice To ensure integrity, GCF Certification encompasses six processes: Devices must be tested against all the Certification Criteria relevant to the Certification process Chair of Steering QUALIFICATION: incorporated technologies and from end-to-end, GCF’s ORGANISATION Group, and the Board manufacturers have to functionalities of Directors, Lars co- Steven actively monitors demonstrate they have the skills, ordinates the work of declarations from working practices & resources to the GCF Office team, manufacturers, RTOs FIELD TRIAL AGREEMENT overseeing strategy development, participate and Third Party ACEs to ensure GROUP (FTAG) day-to-day operations, and external DEFINITION: Scope of testing certification remains efficient and communications. In a 30-year career for new features agreed by Defines Field Trial Certification Criteria robust. He also coordinates the at Motorola, Lars previously gained members in Steering Group; for verifying device behavior in live technical activities required to support experience across the development, definition and implementation commercial networks made available GCF strategies. Previously, at Samsung, – testing, quality and compliance of of these “Certification Criteria” by Field Trial Qualified Operators. across the mobile industry he established and then managed its mobile devices. He represented delegated to Agreement Groups STEERING GROUP sets GCF’s overall direction Recent priorities: Motorola in GCF and also served on ISO 17025 test laboratory and VALIDATION: Conformance AGREEMENT GROUPS Introduction of new VoLTE testing the GCF Board. represented the company at GCF. Certification Criteria and test TASK FORCES are established by SG to investigate issues of common RCS testing platforms independently interest and submit recommendations back to SG Dervilla O’Shea, Chris Hogg, validated PERFORMANCE AGREEMENT Membership, Events & Programme Manager ASSESSMENT: Devices tested GROUP (PAG) Chris is actively involved in the Meetings Manager to demonstrate they meet all THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS Maintains programme that allows development of GCF’s overall Dervilla is responsible relevant certification criteria manufacturers to quantify and report for assisting objectives and business DECLARATION: New certified in a standardized way on agreed companies through the strategy and works devices notified to GCF Operator aspects of mobile device performance. membership with members and Members application process other stakeholders to Performance Metrics currently cover and then supporting identify how the CONTEST: pre-defined process Battery life the 280+ GCF evolving mobile underpins robustness by Acoustic performance members. She also plans and co- landscape impacts allowing operators to challenge OTA antenna performance ordinates the annual calendar of certification. He is also currently the certification of a device Data throughput supporting GCF’s M2M Task Force and quarterly membership meetings held at ACE: Assessment Capable Entity – A GCF member that supports a venues around the globe and manages the Field Trials Agreement Group. Chris Associate Manufacturer Member by determining the range of tests GCF’s presence at events such as has extensive experience in telecom CONFORMANCE & required to certify a device and assessing test results to ensure the Mobile World Congress and CTIA. standardisation having previously INTEROPERABILITY During 12 years in the mobile industry, represented Nortel at 3GPP,

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