Careers at the GSMA
The GSMA
GSMA is the operator-led trade association for the global mobile industry. Our membership includes 750 network operators that provide mobile communications services across 218 countries of the world.
Together, our members serve more than 3 billion users - or approximately 86% of the world's digital mobile market.
The GSMA is governed by a 27 member board, comprising top-level representatives of some of the world's leading mobile operators, among them AT&T, China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom Italia-TIM, T-Mobile International and the Vodafone Group.
The Association also embraces more than 170 manufacturers and suppliers to the industry, which are Associate Members. These include many of the world's leading mobile equipment manufacturers and IT providers such as Ericsson, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft, Siemens and Nortel.
The Board's agenda encompasses business, strategy, technical and public policy objectives, as well as the GSMA's traditional roaming and interoperability remit.
The GSMA's work is focused on two areas: Emerging Services and Emerging Markets. The association helps its members develop and launch new services, ranging from mobile instant messaging to video sharing to mobile Internet access among many others, which will work across networks and across national boundaries. Working closely with world leading operators, our role is fundamental in aiming to reduce the barriers to take up, whether caused by usability, interoperability, cost or regulation.
At the same time, the GSMA is heavily engaged in the industry's push to extend basic voice and text services to more people in emerging markets, as well as programmes to 'bridge the digital divide' such as our innovation driven Development Fund.
The association also produces the world's leading and largest mobile communications events, the Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Congress. Held annually in Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress is attended by more than 50,000 senior executives from across the industry and throughout the world.
Share our Vision
The mobile revolution that has already captivated two thirds of the world's population, has unlimited potential to grow and evolve in the future.
GSM, the Global System for Mobile, has already delivered mobile communications without borders, through its international roaming capabilities. The use of a single standard across 750 networks of the world has created a community of operators and a supporting eco-system that is an unprecedented for any industry, ever.
This in turn has created massive choice and tremendous value for mobile equipment and services, achieved through the global scale of the industry's eco-system. As a result, GSM has also delivered vast economic and social benefits to people, communities, governments and countries.
High speed mobile data, delivered over broadband wireless networks heralds a new era of multimedia mobile everywhere, and the GSMA is playing a pivotal role in the realisation of this vision.
Working at the GSMA
Headquartered in London and Dublin, the GSMA is a global business, with members in almost every country of the world.
Our team of professional staff work in a vibrant and intellectually stimulating environment, on a broad range of industry moving initiatives and challenges. These range from social and economic development programmes, to cutting edge innovative mobile services. We are an organisation that has grown rapidly, and changed considerably in recent times.
In a dynamic, and diverse industry, the GSMA relies on the skills and talents of its people, who are drawn by the opportunity to help shape the future of communications.
Joining the GSMA will give you the chance to influence the daily lives of people throughout the world.
Recent media coverage on GSMA programmes and events:
Strategy:
The program, called the Emerging Market Handset Initiative, was begun by the London-based GSMA trade group earlier this year to bring mobile telephony to people who otherwise couldn't afford cellphones. "We tend to forget that four billion people have never made a phone call," says Ben Soppitt, the trade group's director of strategic initiatives.
Wall Street Journal, 18th August 2005. (Copyright (c) 2005, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
In an initiative led by the GSMA, operators including Vodafone Group PLC, France Telecom SA's Orange, Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile, China Mobile, Telefonica SA and Telecom Italia's TIM committed to fostering interoperability to drive the takeup of instant messaging via mobile handsets.
Dow Jones, 13th February 2006, (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
The "3G for all" programme is the sequel to the "emerging market handset" scheme organised by global mobile trade group GSMA last year which will see the winning vendor, Motorola, ship more than 20 million GSM handsets to more than 50 countries by the end of this year..."This is the next phase for 3G, making it more affordable in both developing and developed markets," said Mark Smith, GSMA spokesman.
South China Morning Post, 20th June 2006, (c) 2006 South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong.
Technical Programmes:
The GSM, the leading trade body for cellular operators, is heading an initiative that will allow operators' customers to quickly and conveniently access data services through WiFi networks around the world using their existing SIM cards in combination with their laptops or with mobile devices such as the Nokia 9500 Communicator, the world's first dual-mode GSM/WiFi handset, which was launched in 2004. They will then be billed for that access through their regular phone bill.
Financial Times, 23rd November 2005. (c) 2005 The Financial Times Limited.
The GSMA, which represents the carriers on policy issues, on Wednesday announced global projects to combat mobile phone spam and to share video on phones. Without such collaboration, subscribers might not be able to combat junk e-mail carried by rival networks or watch certain shows from distant operators on their phones. Watching video is one of many advanced new services that carriers are counting on to raise revenue.
International Herald Tribune, 16th February 2006 © 2006 International Herald Tribune.
Public Policy Initiatives:
But as prices fall, another barrier to adoption becomes more apparent: the taxes on mobile phones in many developing countries. A study released this week by the GSM Association, which promotes the use of the world's dominant mobile-phone standard, details the variation in tax policies and examines their effects. (The study was the work of four consultancies, Pyramid Research, Frontier Economics, Deloitte & Touche and Tarifica, and is endorsed by the International Telecommunication Union and the World Bank.)
The Economist, 1st October 2005 (c) The Economist Newspaper Limited, London 2005.
The GSM Association, which represents mobile operators around the world, says the latest proposal is "deeply flawed". "The Commission is trying to force uniform prices across Europe and dictate what are acceptable returns to business through regulation", says its chief executive, Rob Conway. He believes that price caps will distort competition between operators, and stifle competition within the industry.
BBC News Online, 14th June 2006 (c) BBC News Limited 2006.
Erratic regulation is hampering the expansion of mobile phone coverage in sub-Saharan Africa, where only one in two people has access to a mobile network, a report published by the GSM Association says. The report by consultancy PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimates that mobile investments in the region would have been $5 billion higher if telecoms regulation had been optimal, boosting the region's gross national product by around $900 million a year.
Reuters, 14th February 2006, (c) 2006 Reuters Limited
Events:
The 3GSM World Congress:
When the biggest names in the wireless business descended upon Barcelona, Spain, two weeks ago, it became a competition to see which company could outdo the other. At the 3GSM World Congress, the globe's largest wireless trade show, 55,000 people gathered to check out the thousands of goods in booths and makeshift storefronts inside airplane hangar-sized buildings. Items ranged from digital pets to the baddest music players around, to devices that appeared plain but had some of the most impressive technology looming underneath the surface.
Seattle Times, 25th February 2006 © 2006 Seattle Times
Twelve executives from the News Corporation gathered recently in a makeshift office in Barcelona to plot their newest entertainment venture. But they did not come to discuss television dramas, film or newspapers, their core businesses, but how to create entertainment for the cellphone... executives from four of Mr. Murdoch's divisions gathered in Barcelona at the 3GSM World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone conference, attended by 50,000.
The New York Times, 27th February 2006 Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company.
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