The phone of the future is coming, and its proprietary!

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 25 January 2007 05:40

Opinion and Analysis

He's got a very impressive CV  which states that "In 2000, Prof. Lu founded the global 3G conference in the United States, later expanded to World Wireless Congress which greatly helped promote the ITU mission of IMT2000 and beyond. He is also one of the global founders of B3G and 4G initiatives in ITU, IEEE as well as other international bodies...In 2002, Prof Lu founded the Fourth Generation Mobile Forum delson.org/4gmobile/main.htm [also a Delson owned organisation] which is becoming the world's leading platform on the research, development, design and standardisation of emerging 4G mobile communications focusing on Open Wireless Architecture (OWA)."

Delson www.delson.org is a group with considerable ambitions, "Our mission at Delson Group is to deliver the world's most authoritative technical updates on emerging wireless communications; provide the venture technologies for your wireless leadership; manage the most challenging wireless future projects as well as construct an international wireless R&D platform on open cooperation, collaboration, and exchange."

Since 2000 the group has organised specialised conferences, exhibitions, workshops, seminars, programs and consulting services that, it claims "have greatly facilitated a better understanding of new wireless technological research and development, and accelerated their market adoption...Our world-class services have helped promote the education, research, development and deployment of next generation wireless and mobile communications on the worldwide basis."

Where this leaves OWA in the grand scheme of evolution of 'converged communications' I know not but for the conference organiser to issue the press release without disclosing any of these relationships, is to say the least, being economical with the truth.