The 22nd PHS MoU Group General Meeting in Chengdu, China


By Toshi Naraki, OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd.



The 22nd PHS MoU Group General Meeting was held in Chengdu, China in September 13, 2007.

Agenda Item
Documents
Documents for
Opening
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Election of Chairperson & Vice-Chairperson
GM-22-1
Approval
Opening Speech
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Guest Speech (if any)
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Attendance
GM-22-2
Information
New Signatory Members
GM-22-3
Information
FY 2006 General Activity Report
WG Activity Report
Financial Report
GM-22-4
Approval
FY 2007 General Activity Plan
WG Activity Plan
SC Activity Plan
Financial Plan
GM-22-5
Approval
Report Concerning External Organizations
GM-22-6
Approval
The Request for Approving
XG-P TR Specifications as TS
GM-22-7
Approval
Amending The Document GM-2-4
GM-22-8
Approval
Amending Memorandum of Understanding
in Respect of PHS
GM-22-9
Approval
The Document Handling Agreement
between ARIB and PHS MoU
GM-22-10
Approval
Naming A Pet Name of XG-P Radio Interface
GM-22-11
Approval
Updating IPR Policy
GM-22-12
Approval
Administrative Issues
GM-22-13
Information
The Draft Minutes of
The 21st PHS MoU Group General Meeting
GM-22-14
Information
New Chairperson of PHS MoU Group
and Members List of Steering Committee
GM-22-15
Information


Opening


General Meeting was started by Mr. Sean Sugiura, Secretary General of PHS MoU Group.
Election of Chairperson & Vice-Chairperson


  1. Chairperson

    Despite that Mr. Horisaki still has one year left for his Chairperson tenure, he resigned from the position at the end of March this year due to retirement. Chairperson Horisaki has contributed greatly to the development of MoU, and left his great achievement with us. Today we praise him for these honors, and may his life after retirement colorful and happy.

    As a result of discussion, the Steering Committee Meeting on Aug. 08 has decided that Dr. Yuji Inoue, the President and CEO at TTC will be the successive Chairperson of the PHS MoU Group. Dr. Inoue also holds fellowship at IEEE and IEICE.

  2. Vice-Chairperson

    Mr. Kinoshita has been dedicated to his responsibility as a Vice-Chairperson of MoU Group, but he has submitted the resignation to Steering Committee due to some private reason. A recommendation was made that Mr. Chika who was lately promoted to Executive Vice President of WILLCOM will take over his position, and it was agreed by the Steering Committee.

    Mr. Inoue and Mr. Chika are approved as the Chairperson and one of the Vice-Chairpersons by all MoU members.
Opening Speech


Opening speech was made by Dr. Yuji Inoue, the new chairman of PHS MoU Group.
Attendance was confirmed by the secretariat.
Mr. Sugiura introduced all participated members from the Secretariat of PHS MoU Group.
Mr. Chika made a speech as a new Vice-Chairperson.
Welcome speech was made by Dr. Sam Endy.
New Signatory Members


New signatory members including Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Shenzhen Rockie Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. are introduced.

FY2006 General/WG/Financial Activities Report


Mr. Sugiura reported the general activities conducted in the fiscal year of 2006.

  1. General Meeting

    The General Meetings in FY 2006 were held as stated below:
    1. The 20th General Meeting was held in Hanoi and Ho Chiming City from Aug.22 to 24, 2006. 19 companies and 57 people presented the meeting.
      On this General Meeting, the unification of packet standard in China was realized.
    2. The 21st General Meeting was held in Zhuhai, China from Jan. 30 to Feb. 01, 2007. 28 companies and 74 people presented the meeting.
      PHS subscribers in China start to reduce since the 2nd half year of 2006, which threw a dark shade on the business.
  2. Next Generation PHS

    During the Year of 2006 to 2007, NWG and its SWGs held 37 consecutive meetings. The corpus is the Suzhou Meeting held in July of 2007 with participants of NWG as well as other WGs. The current specification of the Next-Generation PHS is admitted as TR on the meeting.


  3. PHS Engineering Training

    Sponsored jointly by APT (Asia Pacific Tele-community) and MIC (Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications), 4 technicians were recruited from Vietnam and Myanmar to Japan in Mar. 2007 for 10-day’s PHS engineering training program Meeting for information exchange with MIC was held during their stay. It is expected that the training will contribute to the PHS deployment and development in the two countries.


  4. Working Group

    1. BWG Meeting
      BWG Meeting was held in Nanjing, in November 2006.
      BWG made a business trip to Myanmar and Malaysian from December12 to 20 aiming to grasp and adjust plans concerning the introduction of PHS into these countries.

      2.
    2. TWG Meeting
      TWG Packet & Data AdHoc Meeting was held in Nanjing in October 2006.

    3. PWG Meeting
      PWG sub working group SWG2 was held for four times.

    4. NWG Meeting
      NWG sub working group SWG1 meetings were held for 28 times.
      5.
Mr. Sugiura reported BWG activities on behalf of Mr. Satoh, the absent BWG chairperson.
  1. BWG participated in the NWG Meeting held in Suzhou, China on July 11 and 12.
  2. Research work on the latest status on ‘China’s Telecom Industry’ including 3G license issuance and WiMAX was performed and presented at the Suzhou Meeting. (Ted Dean, Vice-chairperson, BWG)
  3. Discussion on how to push forward the process concretely was carried out based on the demand to standardize packet transmission.
TWG chairperson Mr. Chika reported TWG activities.
The TWG meeting was held on Jan. 30 in Zhuhai-China, and following subjects were discussed.
     Technical Roadmap
  1. Document
    Technical Roadmap Overview
  2. Purpose
    To provide the technical schedule information to the other WGs so that they can discuss about business/promotion issues.
  3. Activities
    1. Agreed among TWG members with the technical roadmap overview.
    2. Inputted the document to the NWG, and they agreed about this roadmap.
    3. Opened the roadmap to the other WGs’ members.
PWG chairperson Mr. Akatsuka reported PWG activities.
    SWG2 for Media Promotion: 12 people are actively working for this SWG.
  1. Newsletter:
    SWG2 Meeting is held on monthly base to discuss the scripts for newsletter and the update of the MoU Website.
    Newsletter is publics on bi-monthly base. The latest publication of No. 69 Newsletter is distributed (Middle of August) to 1,700 readers.
  2. Webpage Update
OWG chairperson Mr. Yoshida reported OWG activities.
     Result of Optimization Activities
  1. Since there hasn’t been any request received from system vendors and other entities in telecom business, there is no detailed activities pushed forward.
  2. On the expanding market in South and Central America, we are trying to introduce ourselves to system vendors in Chile and Honduras, and looking for possibilities to carry out information exchange and technology exchange.
NWG chairperson Mr. Kawai reported NWG activities.

  1. ITU Report
    1. ITU-R Recommendation [M.1801] approved on March, 2007.
    2. An input document of Next generation PHS as the part of BWA in LMH (Land Mobile Handbook) of ITU-R WP8A provided.
    3. Information concerning Next Generation PHS for ITU-R WP8A conference held in Geneva on September 2006 and June 2007 provided.
  2. Activity towards ARIB
    1. A formal liaison between ARIB BWA subcommittee and PHS MoU established.
    2. Part of Next generation PHS specification which was approved as TR document in 5th NWG meeting submitted to ARIB BWA Subcommittee on August, 2007.
  3. NWG Meeting was held for three times
    1. The 3rd meeting was held on held in ZhuHai, China, January 30, 2007.
      Report to NWG members from SWG.
    2. The 4th meeting was held on April 6, 2007 in Beppu, Japan.
      New Vice Chairperson was elected Nobuaki Takamatsu.
    3. The 5th NWG Meeting was held on July 10, 2007 in Suzhou, China.
      Next generation PHS specification Ver01 Rev 02 was approved as TR (Technical Report) document. The TR document will be approved as TS (Technical Specification) in the 22nd PHS MoU meeting which is held on September, 2007 in China.
Financial and auditing reports of 2006 were read by Mr. Sugiura.


FY2007 General/WG/Financial Activities Plan


Mr. Sugiura proposed the general activity plan on FY2007.

Three tasks need to be tackled with in future.
  1. To support Packet Data service in China.
    Measures have to be taken to introduce Packet Data service to as many localities as possible before the current PHS network shrinks.
  2. To strengthen the promotion of the Next-Generation PHS.
    A big family shall be made from those countries that have already built PHS network or started PHS business. Their support shall be gained in the co-development of the Next-Generation PHS projects.
  3. To support the PHS network optimization in South America.
    PHS service has been started already in South America. Due to the long distance between to two areas, we can not make our way there easily. But by cooperating with current suppliers, we could help improve the service and help with the business success.
Mr. Sugiura proposed BWG activity plan on behalf of Mr. Satoh, the absent BWG chairperson.
TWG chairperson Mr. Chika proposed TWG activity plan.
PWG chairperson Mr. Akatsuka proposed PWG activity plan.
We have made strategy to focus our activities on the promotion of the Next-Generation PHS for the year of 2007. In detail, to let the world know the Next-Generation PHS as a strong and prospective candidate for BWA and to pave its way for commercialization worldwide, by enhancing the efficiency of existing media promotion activities (Activate the functions of existing SWGs.) and making new promotion plans and take actions to push them forward.
  1. SWG2: Media Promotion: Newsletter Web
  2. SWG3: Guidebook
  3. Establish a new ad hoc SWG for promoting XG-P（PWG-adhocSWG4）
OWG chairperson Mr. Yoshida proposed OWG activity plan.

 We are targeting at visiting South and Central America within the year. The exchange of information and technology will also be strengthened.
  1. We are to take the opportunity in providing support to Chinese carriers and vendors when it becomes time to introduce and optimize China’s packet service.
  2. We are ready to take action immediately when there is PHS related requested from vendors and carriers from countries and areas other than the above-mentioned places.
NWG chairperson Mr. Kawai proposed NWG activity plan.

  1. Planning to have 6th NWG meeting during September, 2007 in China.
    2. Continuously develop Next Generation PHS Specification, if it requires.
  2. Support to ARIB BWA Subcommittee to develop ARIB standard for Next Generation PHS.
  3. Continuously investigate and analyze other Broadband Wireless Access systems.
Financial report of 2007 has been proposed by Mr. Sugiura

Report Concerning External Organizations


Mr. Kamimura reported this issue.
  1. Documents concerning BWA in ITU-R WP8A
  2. Status of each document including Next-generation PHS
  3. Status of APT wireless forum concerning PHS
The Request for Approving XG-P TR Specifications as TS


Mr. Sugiura raised this request.

The request is raised in order to approve a TR, of which the application number is A-GN4.00-01-TS and the title is Next Generation PHS Specifications（Revision2） as TS. The Next-Generation PHS Specification is approved as TR on the NWG Meeting held in Suzhou on July 10, 2007. This agenda is to grant admission to the above-mentioned TR to be applied as TS. Please refer to MoU website for the relationship between TR and TS.

Amending The Document GM-2-4


Mr. Sugiura requested this issue.

In order to process the standardization work more smoothly and effectively competing with others, a request to amend the Document GM-2-4 by adding the following phrases was raised. GM-2-4 was approved at the 2nd General Meeting held on December 17,1996 in Tokyo.

Amending Memorandum of Understanding in Respect of PHS


Mr. Sugiura proposed this issue.

The following paragraphs are requested to be added into the Memorandum of Understanding in respect of PHS in order to process the work more smoothly in a standardized way from the prospect of secretariat as well as respective WGs.

11.4        The Secretariat shall execute the right to coordinate with external affairs on behalf of the Group.
11.5        The Secretariat bears the obligation to support respective Working Groups by following WG leaders’ instructions and plans to coordinate accordingly with relevant external organizations.
11.6        The Secretariat is entitled of the privilege to make immediate judgment and to take justified actions in case of emergency.
11.7        The Secretariat is bound to report its activities concerning external parties on the general meeting before or after actions being taken.
11.8        In addition, to execute the tasks stated in the Item 11.4 to Item 11.7, positions for Coordinator on External Affairs and Senior Coordinator on External Affairs are created.
The Document Handling Agreement between ARIB and PHS MoU


Mr. Kamimura proposed this issue.

ARIB (The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) is planning to develop one standard for Next-generation PHS for Japanese domestic use. The preparation work of the development has already started within ARIB’s Next-generation Working Group.

PHS MoU Group and ARIB have already assented to cooperate with each other on the development of Next generation PHS Standard for Japanese domestic use and are now on the way to conclude the agreement that PHS MoU Group authorizes its own specifications to be quoted by ARIB for the purpose of making ARIB standards

Naming A Pet Name of XG-P Radio Interface


Mr. Sugiura proposed this issue.

To promote XG-P effectively and world widely, it would be preferred to promote XG-P under a new pet name. PWG ad hoc SWG for promoting XG-P called as PWG-SWG4 shall be in charge of the procedure naming XG-P Radio Interface pet name, and the procedure shall be as follows.

Updating IPR Policy


Mr. Sugiura reported this issue.

The IPR policy of PHS MoU Group has not been updated since the beginning of establishment, and it is becoming out of date. Since we are working very closely with ARIB, or Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, our IPR Policy should be similar to them in order to meet the current industry and business requirement. Attachment1 is the draft of revised IPR Policy.

Administrative Issues


Mr. Sugiura explained this issue.

The followings administrative information were all approved by the Steering Committee on its 34th meeting.

  1. (This is only for reporting.) Vice chairperson of OWG, Mr. Shingu has resigned. Mr. Ikegami from Kyocera has taken over OWG’s vice chairperson position for a while until he was recently assigned to a different position. The current vice president of OWG is Mr. Tsukasa Tamakita from Kyocera who started serving the position officially after Mr. Ikegami left.
  2. The Secretariat sets up a coordinative position for the need to cooperate with various standardization organizations. Mr. Kamimura takes the position as a senior coordinator, and his assistant will be on aboard soon after the approval of this.
Mr. Inoue closed general meeting.