ASTAP

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ASTAP Industry Relations Group-Progress Report
Jin Sung Choi jinsungc_at_lge.com LG
Electronics ASTAP Vice Chairman October 26, 2005
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Review of the last meeting (Mar. 2005)

• Discussed Items
• Cooperating with Strategic Task Group
• Pursuing official external relationship
• Promoting industry participation
• Developing a market report

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Discussion Summary (1/2)

• Cooperation with Strategic TG
• ASTAP must be able to provide a business
  opportunity for the industry
• Invite manufacturers to these opportunities in
  order to encourage participation and to earn more
  interest
• ASTAP should provide meeting opportunities for
  operators and telecommunication policy makers
• Submit above issues to Strategic Task Group to
  have telecommunication policy makers,
  manufacturers and operators to be regulated
  within ASTAP
• Pursuance of external relationship
• APT holds good regional position to have
  preparatory discussions for ITU-T WTSA ITU-R
  WRC
• ASTAP EGs must develop joint contributions to ITU
  to make better influence of APT

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Discussion Summary (2/2)

• Promotion for Industrys Participation
• Incorporate new work items that industry has
  strong interest for
• E-government may require significant
  collaboration between governments and industries
• Hold more technical workshops in conjunction with
  ASTAP meetings to gain more involvement from
  industry and academia
• Development for a market report
• IRG proposes each APT member nations market
  information to share among all ASTAP members
• Then IRG will collect the data and make a summary

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IRG Action Plan

• IRG face-to-face meeting will not be held at this
  time
• Exchange views among the members through
  conference calls and report the result at the
  next ASTAP meeting
• Discussions for next IRG meeting/conference call
  
• How to further expand the activities of operators
  and manufacturers within APT including ASTAP
  activities in order to make better influence
• Agreement and development of the market report
  its contents
• How to develop more work items that can be
  submitted for joint contribution for ITU-T/R

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Annex Vision and Mission of IRG

• As a regional standard body, ASTAP should have
  more close relationships with international
  standard body, ITU
• List up ITU Study Groups closely related with
  ASTAP
• Investigate delegates of Asia Pacific countries
  who attend SGs related with ASTAP
• link appropriate ASTAP Expert Groups with ITU
  SGs/WGs
• Assign an ASTAP(or APT) coordinator between ITU
  SG and ASTAP EG.
• Report annually coordinators activities
• Promotion of ASTAP activities
• Lead to find interest areas for
  manufacturers/operators /academia
• One or two day seminar to promote participation
  from the small industry members
• ASTAP seminar in conjunction with other bodies
  seminar