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GVF is the single and unified voice of the global satellite industry, it brings together organisations engaged in the delivery of advanced broadband and narrowband satellite services to consumers, and commercial and government enterprises worldwide. Headquartered in London, GVF is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organisation with 190 members from more than 80 countries. The broad-based membership represents every major world region and every sector of the satellite industry, including fixed and mobile satellite operators, satellite network operators, teleports, satellite earth station manufacturers, system integrators, value added and enhanced service providers, telecom carriers, consultants, law firms, and users. GVF has a network of Correspondent Offices strategically located in every region of the world. For further information, including details of the GVF suite of capacity building/training courseware, please visit us on the Web at www.gvf.org.
Formed in 1996, The UMTS Forum is an international industry association committed to the success of Third Generation (3G) UMTS mobile systems. Bringing together players from across the mobile industry on a peer-to-peer basis, The UMTS Forum promotes a common vision of 3G/UMTS and its evolution as well as its worldwide commercial success. Membership of The UMTS Forum is open to all organisations with a commercial interest in 3G/UMTS mobile – including fixed and mobile network operators, infrastructure vendors, terminal device manufacturers, regulators, media/content providers and developers of 3G/UMTS services and applications.
The mission of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple as Web access from a desktop. Mobile Web brings mobile telephony into convergence with the Web. MWI participants are developing standards for the mobile Web, such as building a standard repository of device descriptions and developing best practices for the creation of mobile friendly Web sites.
Among its goals, MWI is also working on enabling the mobile Web in developing countries as a mean towards bridging the digital divide.
MWI is currently led by mobile industry key players, including mobile operators, handset manufacturers, authoring tool vendors, content providers, adaptation providers, and browser vendors: Afilias, Bango, Drutt Corporation, Ericsson, FT Group, HP, Jataayu Software, mTLD, Mobileaware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Software, Rulespace, Segala, Sevenval, TIM Italia, Vodafone and Volantis Systems.
For more information, see www.w3.org/Mobile/
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