June 2007

Dear Members:

2007 continues to be a break-through year for WiMAX technology worldwide. Our Madrid Member Conference drew a record total of 649 attendees, representing 203 companies and 39 countries. Summaries of the progress of each Working Group during the June conference are contained in this monthly report.

We kicked-off our week with the General Assembly, which featured distinguished industry leaders, in addition to critical updates on WiMAX Forum certification timelines and vision of the technology roadmap. General Assembly presentations (made available to members only) may be found at
http://www.wimaxforum.org/members/Madrid. I am pleased to share with you some highlights this past month, as we continue to advance the global adoption of WiMAX as the broadband wireless Internet technology of choice:

• WiMAX as an IMT-2000 Technology: The WiMAX Forum continues to work toward the inclusion of mobile WiMAX as a member of the IMT-2000 family of radio standards that cover worldwide 3G mobile systems.

  The ITU-R Study Group (SG) 8 meeting has just concluded in Geneva. One of its main tasks at this meeting was to consider the 7th revision of Rec. M.1457 which contains IP-OFDMA (WiMAX) as the sixth IMT-2000 technology, for approval. The importance of this to WiMAX Forum is that inclusion into this recommendation will facilitate access for WiMAX to the 2500-2690 MHz band on a global basis. Final approval of Rev. 7 of M.1457 is to occur at the ITU-R Radiocommunication Assembly (RA) meeting, 15-19 of October in Geneva.

• Nokia Elected to Board of Directors: Jari Vainikka, Director of Standardisation at Nokia, is the WiMAX Forum's most recent addition to the Board of Directors. Mr. Vainikka has more than 22 years experience of international standardisation of various technologies (GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, WLAN) in ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE and IETF and today his responsibility areas in Nokia are heading non cellular (WiMAX, WLAN) and internet standardisation in WiMAX Forum, IEEE, IETF and other relevant industry forums. We greatly appreciate Nokia's commitment to WiMAX worldwide and look forward to Mr. Vainikka's valued participation on our Board of Directors.
• WiMAX Forum Gains Greater Global Presence: In addition to the United States, China, and India, the WiMAX Forum has recently added offices in Taiwan, Japan, and Brazil. The following individuals have been appointed to serve as Directors and Vice Directors:
• Taiwan Director – Dr. Ching-Tarng Hsieh, Engineering Director, Wireless Communications Technology Division Information & Communications Research Labs/ITRI
• Japan Director - Dr. Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo
• Japan Vice Director of Technology – Dr. Kenji Kohiyama, Professor at Keio University
• Japan Vice Director of Operations – Dr. Takashi Shono, Executive Researcher of Intel K.K.
• Brazil Director - Mr. Luiz C. Moraes Rego, faculty member of the Getulio Vargas Foundation Business School of Sao Paulo (FGV-EAESP).

My sincere thanks goes out to each of you for your hard work and dedication toward making our June 2007 conference and activities more successful than the last. It's a great time to be a member of the WiMAX Forum team!

Best regards,

Ron Resnick
President, WiMAX Forum®

Application Architecture Task Group (AATG):

During July and August 2007, the latest NS-2 based WiMAX Simulation Bundle (Beta) will be available to a limited number of WIMAX Forum members for evaluation and feedback... [continued online]

Application Business Task Group (ABTG):

The MWG and ABTG presented a proposal to launch the mobile WiMAX Proof-of-Concept lab in Taipei, Taiwan... [continued online]

Certification Working Group (CWG):

The efforts surrounding this ever-busy working group are too numerous to summarize in a succinct paragraph; therefore, please log onto to the member site for specifics... [continued online]

Evolutionary Technical Working Group (ETWG):

The ETWG worked on Fixed Wave 2 documents (e.g., System Profiles, RCT, Master OFDM TSS/TP) and reviewed previous Fixed profiles... [continued online]

Global Roaming Working Group (GRWG):

The GRWG obtained Board approval to continue work in establishing a common framework and processes to enable WiMAX and inter-technology roaming. [continued online]

Marketing Working Group (MWG):

The Marketing Working Group member conference meetings focused on gaining momentum on certification messaging; branding; membership and ecosystem development; WiMAX 3G Roadmap; regulatory spectrum white paper development... [continued online]

Network Working Group (NWG):

The Intellectual Property Review (IPR) for Release 1.0.0 of the WiMAX Forum Network Architecture was completed on June 2nd, completing the Release 1.0 activity... [continued online]

Regulatory Working Group (RWG):

The RWG sessions were busy and productive. In fact, volunteers are needed to progress critical topics! The group achieved initial summarization of the radio regulatory description of the WiMAX profiles and are now in need of volunteers... [continued online]

Service Provider Working Group (SPWG):

The SPWG reviewed and accepted most of the Release 1.5 Change Requests, made excellent progress on Release 1.x Air Interface requirements, held several joint working group meetings, and passed a motion for not requiring device authentication in the NAP.

Technical Working Group (TWG):

The IOT Subgroup Status Report on Plugfest Guide and MIOT included a review of all test scenarios for the next Plugfest. The Mobile WiMAX Radio Conformance Test (RCT) project approved Mobile RCT comment resolution results during the June F2F... [continued online]

Welcome! New Members May/June

Spreadtrum Communications Inc., KAIST, Trellia, Comvergent, Acer, MTC Vodafone Bahrain, Servecomm, Inc, Long Lines Wireless, Research in Motion, Beijing Jiaotong University, Kozo Keidaku Engineering Inc., Meditelecom, Averna Technologies Inc. Nth Ari Inc., ZK Celltest, Inc., Netsolutions ISP S.C.R.L., High Tech Computer, Corp., ABSInc, APPLUS, ZuluTime, LLC, Comarco Wireless Technologies, Inc., Europa Wireless, Tatara Systems, Neotel, Siemens AG, Synetrix, WANA.

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