Industry Associations

Member since 1998

The TeleManagement Forum was founded in 1988 as the OSI/Network Management Forum with the goal of accelerating the availability of interoperable network management products. Founding members included AT&T and BT on the service provider side, and suppliers such as Northern Telecom and Hewlett-Packard on the equipment side. By early 1989 it had approved its first OSI/NM Forum Protocol Specification and by 1990 it had 85 members from 13 countries.

The Forum has continued to adapt as the technological and business landscape has developed. Today, the TeleManagement Forum has more than 400 members, runs the industry's leading OSS/BSs Conference and Exposition, and its standards are being adopted by the UN body, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). www.tmforum.org

Member since 2003

The GSM Association (GSMA) is a global trade association that exists to promote, protect and enhance the interests of GSM mobile operators throughout the world. At the end of September 2005, it consisted of more than 680 second and third generation mobile operators and more than 160 manufacturers and suppliers. The Association's members provide mobile services to nearly 1.57 billion customers across more than 210 countries and territories around the world. The GSMA aims to accelerate the implementation of collectively identified, commercially prioritized operator requirements and to take leadership in representing the global GSM mobile operator community with one voice on a wide variety of issues nationally, regionally and globally. www.gsmworld.com

Member since 2002 

ETIS is a membership based organization which brings together the major telecommunications providers in Europe on key information and communication technology issues. The mission of ETIS is to enable its members to improve their business performance by personal exchange of information on using ICT effectively. ETIS achieves this by engaging its members in various working groups, sharing best-practices, benchmarking, web-based information services, discussion forums, EU projects, workshops and conferences. www.etis.org

The GSC Group is a non-profit organization, run by Carriers for Carriers. The Group was formed in early 2003 to meet the growing needs of Carriers from all continents for process improvement, development of best practices standards and guidelines to adapt the evolving commercial agreements, billing and settlement complexities of international wholesale businesses.

Within 5 years, the GSC Group has successfully held 10 global forums. Each Forum has attracted up to 80 participants from over 40 companies worldwide. The Group has also developed best practices process guidelines and deliverables for use by Carrier Members.

GSC Group is currently supported by membership from over 30 companies worldwide, with many of them leading international wholesale Carriers. www.gscgroup.org

The International Factors Group (IFG) was founded in 1963 as the first international association of factoring companies. The original mission of IFG was to help factoring companies to conduct cross-border business acting as correspondents for each other. This is still the core activity of IFG today. In 2002, IFG has taken up this challenge and is today recognized as the representative Trade Association for the Factoring and the Asset Based Finance Industry. Membership of IFG is open to all active market players in the industry, including service providers. IFG today is represented in more than 50 countries by more than 150 members.
www.ifgroup.com

Member since 2007

Formed in October 1999, UPnP Forum is an industry initiative of more than 947 leading companies in computing, printing and networking; consumer electronics; home appliances, automation, control and security; and mobile products.

The Forum's goals are to allow devices to connect seamlessly and to simplify network implementation in the home and corporate environments. Toward this end, UPnP Forum members work together to define and publish UPnP device control protocols built upon open, Internet-based communication standards.
www.upnp.org

GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit industry association whose mission is to drive the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open source development platform. GENIVI will accomplish this by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. GENIVI’s work will result in shortened development cycles, quicker time-to-market, and reduced costs for companies developing IVI equipment and software.

Member since 2011

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Linux conferences, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month and include important Linux video resources. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. www.linuxfoundation.org 

Member since 2012

The NGMN Alliance is a forum to share, assess, and drive aspects of mobile broadband technologies focusing on LTE & EPC (Evolved Packet Core) and its evolution. The NGMN Alliance complements and supports the work within standardisation bodies and industry fora by providing a coherent view of what the operator community is going to require for successful deployment and in order to deliver mobile broadband technology quickly and cost-effectively and serve the benefits of the end-user. 
http://www.ngmn.org