Lleida, November 29th 2011. Tomorrow Lleida will host for the first time a mobile industry Interconnect Working Group meeting (IWG#15). This will involve more than 50 international organisations within the global mobile ecosystem meeting to discuss standards for the mobile communications industry.

One of the topics that the IWG will discuss is the GSMA’s RCS-e project, a simple and interoperable evolution to voice and text, which enables customers to send instant messages, video chat and exchange files in real time. All functions are built into the address book of mobile devices.

Source GSMA: http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/mobile_lifestyle/rcs/

The GSMA’s Embedded Mobile programme is another industry initiative that will be discussed during the IWG#15 meeting; The GSMA’s Embedded Mobile initiative is a market development programme designed to accelerate the adoption of wireless connectivity in a wide range of devices across the consumer electronics, healthcare, automotive and utilities sectors. (http://www.gsm.org/our-work/mobile_broadband/embedded_mobile/index.htm)

The GSMA’s Interconnect Working Group (IWG) has overall responsibility for interconnection matters worldwide and its aim is to improve interconnect and interworking relationships between mobile operators as well as between operators and international carriers, hubbing providers and many other stakeholders in the mobile communications industry.

The GSMA’s mobile operator members represent more than 6 billion mobile connections from the GSM family of thechnologies.

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning more than 219 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Congress.

For more information, please visit Mobile World Live, the online portal for the mobile communications industry,at www.mobileworldlive.com or the GSMA corporate website at www.gsmworld.com.