The Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of South Korea and ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding.

Industry experts said that this renewal confirms the willingness of two major standards development organizations to continue to share their work and expertise in order to contribute to the development of globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies. 

Officials with ETSI (News - Alert) said that the agreement ensures a high level of alignment between the two organizations and their respective regions.

In the foreseen life span of the new MoU, TTA (News - Alert) and ETSI and their respective secretariats will work together to further stimulate collaboration on identified technical areas with a global impact.

These include Intelligent Transport Systems, the fast growing sector of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and Digital Multimedia Broadcasting.

“While reviewing the text of the MoU, TTA recognized that ETSI and TTA are covering more areas where there is scope for co-operation, including mobile communication aspects such as IMT-Advanced and 3GPP, and next generation networks such as M2M, Intelligent Transport Systems, Cloud Computing and TETRA,” said Keun Hyeob Lee, the TTA president, in a statement.

“I believe that these areas are essential for both organizations and certainly ones where we can be the international standardization leaders,” said Lee.

He said that he looks forward to this traditional co-operative relationship continuing into the coming years.

“I sincerely trust that both organizations will continue to prosper in the future,” said Lee.

ETSI's director-deneral, Walter Weigel, said that ETSI is committed to ensuring global collaboration with all the important standardization organizations of the world.

“TTA is unquestionably one of our long-standing partners with whom we have collaborated very effectively in the past, especially in the big success story of 3GPP”, said Weigel.

He said that he is therefore delighted by the renewal of the MoU with TTA and is confident that this collaboration will lead to many benefits for the development of ICT standards with worldwide impact.

This partnership is expected to also enable the two organizations to exchange information about each other's work programs and thus to better co-ordinate their future endeavors.