UMTS Workshop

On the invitation of the Institute for Telecommunications a large and interesting group consisting of representatives of the UMTS Forum, Slovenian legislative bodies, mobile and cellular operators, and manufacturers gathered on April 6 2001 at the M Hotel in Ljubljana to attend a one-day Slovenian Workshop on UMTS, organised by the Institute for Telecommunications and the UMTS Forum. The conference came at a time when operators were preparing to bid for the 3G UMTS licence.

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Report

UMTS WORKSHOP 
Ljubljana, M Hotel, April 6, 2001

On the invitation of the Institute for Telecommunications – a member of the UMTS Forum - a large and interesting group consisting of representatives of the UMTS Forum, Slovenian legislative bodies, mobile and cellular operators, and manufacturers gathered on April 6 2001 at the M Hotel in Ljubljana to attend a one-day Slovenian Workshop on UMTS, organised by the Institute for Telecommunications and the UMTS Forum. 

Topics discussed at the workshop included presentations of the work and achievements of the UMTS Forum and the 3GPP group, assignment of the UMTS operator licences in various European countries, the latest studies on the third-generation mobile systems 3G, regulatory aspects, and transitional issues.

The quite unexpected high interest in the workshop from those playing or should be playing an active role in implementing the UMTS in Slovenia was not just the result of the otherwise highly interesting and presently much-talked-about topics of the workshop. The high turnout was partly the result of the fact that, at the time of the workshop, operators were working on bids for the assignment of UMTS operator licences. The deadline for submissions was set for May 14 2001. Consequently, many including representatives of the UMTS Forum expected a heated discussion on the assignment of licences between representatives of the operators and representatives of Slovenian government bodies. Yet this did not eventuate. The representatives of operators had obviously decided not to reveal their cards before “the game of poker” (as the process of assigning licences had been repeatedly named) was over in the part concerning bids.

The Slovenian Workshop on UMTS could be seen as a unique opportunity for Slovenian government bodies and companies in the field of telecommunications to get new, valuable information directly and in person from representatives of the UMTS Forum. As such opportunities are quite rare in Slovenia, the Institute for Telecommunications hopes to organise more similar events in the future. 

Programme

UMTS Workshop Ljubljana, 6 April 2001

Photo gallery

Dr. Tomaž Kalin, Ministry of the Information Society

Edgar Geidans, Western Wireless International and Allan Haden, UMTS Forum

UMTS Forum board