INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
As an active member of the major Industry associations, Sicap is setting the pace for timely software upgrades to cover the latest mobile benchmark standards.
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GSM Association
Founded in 1987, the GSM Association has played a pivotal role in the development of the GSM platform and of the global wireless industry. Cooperation and collaboration, between people, companies and governments to create the world's first global wireless network.
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ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute)
A not-profit organization, plays a major role in developing standards and technical documentation --Europe's contribution to world-wide standardization in telecommunications, broadcasting and information technology. Sicap is actively involved in the body of 912 members from 54 countries inside and outside Europe, and represents administrations, network operators, manufacturers, service providers, research bodies and users..
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Open Mobile Alliance
Sicap is a member of the "Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). OMA is an umbrella standards organization which has been formed to consolidate the various standards bodies of the mobile industry. Many leading industry consortiums such as the Wireless Village (IMPS), WAP Forum and the SyncML Initiative have merged into OMA making it the most important standards body responsible for many network protocols in the mobile industry.
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Open Mobile Service Interface (OMSI)
OMSI is a set of web service interfaces at, for example point-of-sales and service-point PCs. The idea is to solve the current problem with several different applications that may even need to execute on different PCs in order to perform service on mobile phones from different manufacturers.
OMSI Forum develops and promotes the OMSI interface and concept.
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The Device Management Forum
is a company formed to promote the interests of major stakeholders in the development, distribution, management, security and use of information, communication and entertainment devices. Through its activities, the company aims to facilitate more effective and efficient use of information, communication and entertainment devices, promote best practices in device management and security,help major user stakeholder groups make optimal purchasing decisions,help major vendor stakeholder groups market their solutions and services.
