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Join WWRF as a Provisional Member

Join WWRF as a Provisional Member

Qualified organizations can now join WWRF as provisional member. This exciting new opportunity enables academics, universities and research institutes from developing countries to join WWRF for two years without needing to pay membership fees. The provisional members have all the voting rights, access to member-only information, travel grants, and free registrations for meetings that full members have. Many new members…

WWRF Contribution for ITU Report

WWRF Contribution for ITU Report

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) recently published a report on “Future technology trends of terrestrial International Mobile Telecommunications systems towards 2030 and beyond”. This report is based on contributions from a wide range of organizations, including significant input from WWRF as an ITU Sector Member. WWRF contributed to its creation through inputs created by experts in non-terrestrial networks, new radio…

WWRF Reception at ITU in Geneva

WWRF Reception at ITU in Geneva

Recently, WWRF hosted a reception at ITU headquarters to celebrate ITU’s continued momentum towards IMT-2030 and WWRF’s partnership with ITU. Those present included Mr Mario Maniewicz, Director of the Radiocommunications Board at ITU and Mr Uwe Löwenstein, Counsellor ITU-R Study Group 5, and many members of the WWRF Steering Board and participants in the ongoing WP5D meeting. This was an…

ETSI and WWRF agree working together on cybersecurity and reconfigurable radio

ETSI and WWRF agree working together on cybersecurity and reconfigurable radio

Recently, WWRF renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). ETSI, through its leading role in the 3GPP partnership and its groundbreaking standards on cybersecurity, IoT and many other topics, is an organization that WWRF is very happy to work with on cybersecurity, reconfigurable radio systems and other areas to be decided. Each organization is entitled to…

WWRF speaks out on developing countries needs at International Telecommunication Union

WWRF speaks out on developing countries needs at International Telecommunication Union

Developing Countries’ Needs Countries with a tradition of telecoms technology development – often the greatest economies in the world, especially in North America, Europe, and parts of Asia – have overwhelmingly had the biggest role in setting up international standards. For example, at the recent ITU workshop on its vision for mobile networks beyond IMT-2020, there were no representatives from…

Workshop THz Waves: Fast Lane Journey to 6G by WWRF

Workshop THz Waves: Fast Lane Journey to 6G by WWRF

Motivated by the potential of THz technologies to transform the future of ICT, this workshop aimed reveal and discuss the critical technology gaps as well as the appropriate enablers, in terms of baseband processing RF frontend, channel models and waveforms, signals and coding, beam-patterns and medium access control schemes. Most importantly, this workshop attempted to shed some light on the…

Two New Outlook Publications from WWRF’s Evaluation Working Group

Two New Outlook Publications from WWRF’s Evaluation Working Group

A team from WWRF has been taking part in the evaluation of candidate technologies to be recognised as compliant with the ITU IMT-2020 requirements. One of these was submitted by ETSI TC DECT and the DECT Forum, and following its successful evaluation, has now been announced as the world’s first non-cellular 5G technology. The other Outlook covers evaluation of the technology…