The 19th PHS MoU Group General Meeting & Seminar was held in Fukuoka City for a period from February 28 (Tue.) to March 2 (Thu.), 2006.

     63 members (including 23 proxy voters) from five countries and region, China, Taiwan, Thailand, U.S.A and Japan attended this time to obtain technical or business information and to promote good fellowship each other.

Date	Event
February 28 (Tue.)	10:00 BWG Meeting   11:30 Operators' Committee    14:00 TWG Meeting
March 1 (Wed.)	10:00 PWG Meeting   10:50 OWG Meeting   14:00 General Meeting
March 2 (Thu.)	09:00 PHS Seminar

Each Working Group and Committee Meetings (February 28 (Tue.) - March 1 (Wed.))

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

(1) The activity results in the second half of 2005.


*  BWG visited East and Southeast Asian telephony carriers and equipment suppliers to make coordination of how to proceed with standardization of the next generation PHS specification and research the requirement for the future PHS services.

*  BWG researched the current VAS (Value Added Service), for example, voice, SMS (Short Messaging Service) and data communication service in China.

*  BWG supported the PHS MoU Group China Chapter establishment.


(2) The activity schedule for the first half of 2006.


*  To strengthen the relationship with telephony carriers and equipment suppliers in each country in order to dig up requests for the PHS MoU Group's activities.

*  To make promotion of PHS services to potential countries, such as Eastern European countries and South Americas, and to continue such promotion in Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar and Bangladesh.

*  To support China Chapter's activities.


(3) Presentation "VAS in China" by Mr. Ted Dean(BDA China Ltd.), BWG Vice- Chairperson


Mr. Ted Dean reported the current situation of VAS in China such as SMS, CRBT (Color Ring Back Tone), etc.

Chairperson Dr. Han-Bin Chuang presided the meeting and explained the current VAS situation in Taiwan such as SMS, CRBT, MiMi (Mobile Information Mobile Internet), small payment, WiWi (Wireless Information Wireless Internet) and e-mail.

(1) Summary of the TWG meeting in Kunming, China on November 29, 2005.

*  An establishment of the TWG Ad-hoc for PHS NGN (New Generation Network) was approved.

*  An establishment of the TWG Ad-hoc for SMS capacity.

*  BWG is to survey the requirements for VAS in each country especially China.


(2) Each Ad-hoc's activities and status report of the second half of 2005


* Ad-hoc Group 2 : Internet Browsing

Ad-hoc Chairperson Mr. Yamagami reported as follows.

We have been working on making the minimum interoperable full browser specification as TR (Technical Review) document and asked the TWG for its approval.

TWG approved it as E-BA1.00-01-TR and will request its further approval of this document at this General Meeting.

    With respect to the other Ad-hoc Groups ; Mr. Kato, TWG Vice-Chairperson, reported the TWG's activities as follows.

* Ad-hoc Group 4 : SMS


TWG approved to suspend this Ad-hoc, because there was no request for specifying the SMS service from members.



* Ad-hoc Group 5 : SIM (Subscriber Identification Module)


TWG approved to suspend this Ad-hoc, because it has no official information on standard SIM specification and there was no request for specifying the standard SIM from members.

* Ad-hoc Group 7 : Location Information Service


TWG approved to suspend this Ad-hoc, because there was no request for Location Information Service from members.

* Ad-hoc Group 8 : High Speed Data


TWG approved to close this Ad-hoc, because the new modulation methods (8PSK, 16QAM) standardized by ARIB have been reported.

* Ad-hoc Group 10 : Macro Cell


TWG approved to close this Ad-hoc, because this Ad-hoc reported that High Power Base Station (2W) specification had finally been defined by ARIB.

* Ad-hoc Group 12 : PHS NGN


Some venders and operators made presentations on the next generation PHS specification and requirements overview.


 (3) The activity schedule for the first half of 2006


* To continue each Ad-hoc's activities.


* To research the requests for TR/TS documents.

* To conduct searches of the requests for new specification along with other WGs.

* To consider upgrading PHS NGN Ad-hoc group to the subordinate organization of the General Meeting.

Presentation (Mr. Zhang Dawei, UTStarcom)


Mr. Zhang Dawei of UTStarcom made a presentation on "TURBO PHS" which is a new concept of enhanced PHS system in order to improve the PHS network quality in China.


UTStarcom requested the TWG to establish new Ad-hoc for discussing "TURBO PHS" specification and functions, and TWG approved it as "TURBO PHS Ad-hoc group".



ARIB STD-28 Working Group's activities (Mr. Tachika, ARIB)


Mr. Tachika explained ARIB STD-28 Working Group's activities and its relationship with the PHS MoU Group.


He also explained RCR STD-28 revision history and the current status of RCR STD-28 Ver.5.1.

      PWG Vice-Chairperson Mr. Akatsuka explained the PWG activities in the second half of 2005 and activity schedule for the first half of 2006.

PWG activities in the second half of 2005 were as follows. :

* SWG1 (Symposium)
      It is in recess now.
* SWG2 (Media Promotion and Website & Press Release)

PHS MoU Newsletter has been released bimonthly and the latest issue was No.59.
PHS MoU website top page image, template design and site configuration have been renovated.
* SWG3 (PHS Guidebook)
      It is in recess now.


PWG active schedule for the first half of 2006 is to be:

* SWG2 (Media Promotion : and Website & Press Release)

-To continue to issue e-mail newsletters and try to increase the target subscribers up to 10,000.
-To examine the possibility of issuing e-mail newsletters in Chinese.
-To enrich the website articles in both Chinese and Japanese.
-To examine the advertising banner space on the website.

* SWG3 (PHS Guidebook) :
      To start the updating work of the website edition PHS Guidebook from this spring.

* Others

-  To promote the PHS system in corporation with other Working Groups such as BWG, TWG and OWG.
-  To create the effective promotion tools such as videotape or DVD to introduce the PHS MoU and to appeal the PHS system's potentialities.
-  To participate in organizing the event of celebrating an achievement of 100 million subscribers.

      Chairperson Mr. Yoshida presided the meeting based on the following agenda.

(1) The purpose of OWG activity

(2) The activity report of the second half of 2005



OWG started its activity from June 2005 based on members' requirement at the last PHS MoU General Meeting.


OWG had a meeting with Chine Telecom in Shanghai and China Netcom in Beijing for the following purpose.

-  To explain the purpose of OWG activity,
-  To explain the cases of network improvement and the current situation in Japan.
-  To exchange information.

OWG has organized the past cases of each OWG member company dealing with networking optimization as one document in both English and Chinese.


(3) The activity schedule for the first half of 2006
To support system venders those have a relationship with carriers to work on network optimization.
To upload network optimization cases & studies document on the PHS MoU website for information sharing among members.

PHS MoU Group Vice-Chairperson Dr. Sam Endy made an opening speech.

* Guest Speech

• Mr. Shun Sakurai (Director General of the Radio Department of MIC (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) made a guest speech.


• Mr. Wang (Fukuoka consul of China government) made a guest speech.
  
• Mr. Yoichiro Yatsurugi (President & CEO of WILLCOM, Inc.) made a guest speech.
  
• Mr. Li Jian Yu (China Netcom Research Institute) made a guest speech.
  

• Approval of the Minutes

     The minutes of the 18th PHS MoU Group General Meeting in Hainan, China was approved.


• Approval and Introduction of new Members

     The following 8 companies were formally approved to become a member of the PHS MoU Group.
(1) Airoha Technology Corporation
(2) CEC Wireless R&D Ltd.
(3) Japan Communications Inc.
(4) Micro Linear Corporation
(5) Spansion Inc.
(6) Terax Communication Technologies Inc.
(7) Toshiba Digital Media Engineering Corporation
(8) Ube Pallet Rental Leasing Co., Ltd.

     Meeting summary of the 30th & 31st Steering Committee were reported.

* Activity Report
     General activity of each WG was reported.

(1) BWG Activity Report
(2) TWG Activity Report
(3) PWG Activity Report
(4) OWG Activity Report

     The above have already been reported at each WG meeting previously and each WG activities were approved.

* Approval 2

• An establishment of the new Working Group, Optimization Working Group (OWG), was approved formally.
• Changing the PHS MoU Rule to add an Ad-hoc Working Group was approved.
• An establishment of the new Ad-hoc, PHS Next Generation Network Working Group (NGNWG) was approved.

• campaign to increase the number of the PHS MoU Newsletter subscribers.


• A proposal on celebrating 100 million PHS subscribers worldwide.

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

PHS Seminar (in the morning of March 2 (Thu.))

     PHS Seminar was held in the morning of March 2 (Thu.) as follows.