The 18th PHS MoU Group General Meeting in Hainan, China


     The 18th PHS MoU Group General Meeting & Seminar was held in Hainan Island, China at HuanDao Tide Hotel (Haikou City) for a period from April 12 (Tue.) to 14 (Thu.), 2005.
     The number of times of this General Meeting has already reached 18 times and widely recognized as the place of new PHS system technology introduction as well as the information exchange between industries involved in the PHS business. Approximately 90 participants from China, Taiwan, Thailand, U.S.A. and Japan attended this time to collect information and deepened their friendship. Meeting schedule is as the following table.

Date Event
April 12 (Tue.) 09:30 am BWG Meeting
10:30 am PWG Meeting
14:00 pm TWG Meeting
April13 (Wed.) 10:00 am General Meeting
14:00 pm PHS Seminar
April 14 (Thu.) 09:00am..Operatorsf Committee


Each Working Group and Committee Meetings (April 12 (Tue.)

Business Working Group (BWG)
     BWG Chairperson Mr. Satoh presided the meeting based on the following agenda.

(1) An election of Mr. Fujii to the BWG Vice-Chairperson.
(2) An explanation of the present PHS trends in each country of the world.
Japan : NTT DoCoMofs withdrawal the PHS service.
WILLCOMfs new high-speed PHS data communications service.
China :Illegal PHS handsets
Others :Market situation in Taiwan, Thailand and India.





Promotion Working Group (PWG)
      PWG Chairperson Mr. Nishio and Vice-Chairperson Mr. Akatsuka explained PWGfs activities after previous General Meeting in Dalian, China and the future activity plan. PWGfs activities were :

* SWG2 (PHS MoU Newsletter and Website & Press Release) :
     Newsletter has been released bimonthly and the latest issue is No.55. English and Japanese version as well as the Chinese version top page are being prepared for website posting.

* SWG3 (PHS Guidebook) :
     Chinese version PHS Guidebook 3rd edition has already been posted on the website English version is also available at the website as well.
     Printed version is being prepared for publication and SWG3 is now collecting information for the next revision.

* The future activity plan is to be :
(1) To provide a network optimization consulting in several locations supported by some voluntary PHS MoU members.
(2) To promote advanced PHS technologies in several locations supported by some of voluntary PHS MoU members.


Technical Working Group (TWG)
      Mr. Kato explained TWGfs Ad hoc activities after previous General Meeting in Dalian, China instead of Chairperson Mr. Chika.
      Since Mr. Fujii has been appointed as Vice-Chairperson of BWG, Mr. Kato played an active role in TWG.

* Ad hoc 1 : Packet Communications
     This Ad hoc is presided by WILLCOM. The documentation of the gTechnical Information Documenth has already been completed so this Ad hoc will be moved to promotion.

* Ad hoc 2 : Internet Browser
     This Ad hoc is presided by ACCESS. The specification including the Chinese specification has been discussed and unified.

* Ad hoc 3 : Wake on Ring
     This Ad hoc is presided by AICON. The documentation of the "Technical Information Document" has already been completed so this Ad hoc will be closed.

* Ad hoc 4 : SMS (Short Messaging Service)
     This Ad hoc is presided by WILLCOM. Itfs agreed that the unified PHS MoU specification is to be handled by the PHS MoU secretariat and currently in process.

* Ad hoc 5 : SIM (Subscriber Identification Module)
      This Ad hoc is presided by WILLCOM. The documentation of the "Technical Information Document" on R-SIM has already been completed. Itfs agreed that the standard SIM is to be investigated further and currently in process.

* Ad hoc 6 : Cell Planning
     This Ad hoc is presided by WILLCOM. The documentation of the "Technical Information Document" has already been completed so this Ad hoc will be moved to promotion.

* Ad hoc 7 : Location-based Service
      This Ad hoc is presided by LOCUS and currently planning to make its specification.

* Others :
     Chairperson of the Ad hocs 8-11 has not been elected yet, however, the following items have been discussed relating to them.

* Ad hoc 8 : High-speed Data Communications
   ---STD28 has been changed to unrestricted document by WILLCOM.

* Ad hoc 9 : New Voice Codec
   ---Already finished as a part of STD28 so it should be removed.

* Ad hoc 10 : High Power CS/PS
   --- Changed the Ad hoc name to gMacro Cell 1h.

* Ad hoc 11 : Push-to-Talk
   --- Suspended animation


General Meeting (in the morning of April 13 (Wed.))

     The General Meeting was presided by Chairperson Mr. Horisaki, and Mr. Kinoshita elected as a new Vice-Chairperson from this General Meeting.

* Opening Speech

PHS MoU Group Vice-Chairperson Dr. Sam Endy made an opening speech on the following subjects.

(1) History of the PHS subscriber increase from its commencement to the latest 75 millions.
(2) An explanation of the latest PHS technologies and the PHS development situation in each area, China, Taiwan, Thailand etc.

     Further, Dr. Endy proposed to start the discussion at this General Meeting on the present development of each system, GSM, CDMA and PHS for the future PHS.
>>Opening Speech

* Guest Speech (New Vice-Chairperson Speech)
     Mr. Kinoshita of WILLCOM Inc. made a guest speech as a new Vice-Chairperson.
>>As a new PHSMoU Vice-Chairperson from Mr. Ryuichi Kinoshita

* Key Note Speech ( Mr. Ted Dean BDA (China) Ltd.)
     PHS MoU Group BWG Vice-Chairperson Mr. Ted Dean BDA (China) made an Key Note Speech of his research result g Chinafs PHS Challenges and Opportunitiesh
>>China's PHS Challenges and Opportunities

* Approval
   Approval of the Minutes
     The minutes of the 17th PHS MoU Group General Meeting in Dalian, China was approved.

   Approval and Introduction of new Members
     The following 4 companies were formally approved to become a member of the PHS MoU Group.

    (1) Fiwin, Inc.
    (2) Motorola Japan Ltd.
    (3) ShenZhen PUTIAN Lingyun Electronics Co.,LTD.
    (4) Toshiba Corporation
* Activity Report
     General activity of each WG was reported focusing on whatfs most active.
    (1) Business Activity Report
    (2) Technical Activity Report
    (3) Promotion Activity Report
     The above have already been reported in brief at each WG meeting held on the previous day and each WGfs activities were approved.

* Settlement
Expense status report in fiscal year 2004/2005 and tentatively proposed budget in fiscal year 2005/2006 were approved.

* PHS Seminar (in the afternoon of April 13 (Wed.))
     PHS Seminar was held in the afternoon of April 13 (Wed.) as follows.
Operators' Committee (in the morning of April 14 (Thu.))

     Chairperson Dr. Hann-Bin Chuang presided the meeting.
     Operator's committee has been settling various problems by using their rich experiences and new PIM and Dual-Mode handset issues were discussed this time.

* New PIM
     New PIM specification has been released by gChina Fixed Line & Wireless Terminal Allianceh and is now being under evaluation.
     PIM handset will soon be announced officially and all handsets in China will be replaced with such by the end of this year.
     The purpose of PIM would be for international roaming, fraud prevention and 3G migration and the PHS MoU Group will continue to find the better solution to them.

* Dual-Mode Handset in Taiwan.
     Dual-Mode handset is quite popular in Taiwan provided by Sanyo first and Inventec and Wistron are following Sanyo.