Currently more and more companies and institutions are more and more interested in the standardization of IEEE802.16j MMP, especially in Asian countries, such as China, Korea, Singapore and Japan. And many of the companies have developed WiMAX products and put them into market. Facing with the fast development of WiMAX system, nearly all the telecommunication companies are willing to participate in the future big market. Therefore participating in the standardization procedure firstly is a very important step.
While in the group of voting members, companies, such as Intel, Samsung, Motorola, etc., are playing important roles, which also proves that many big companies are paying more and more attention to the intellectural properties. This is always considered to be a right strategy in the intense competition among companies.
On the other hand, this standard was supposed to be summited this July and approved this September. While the schedule may be delayed for several months, partly because the organizer also recognized the big market in China. And most of the Chinese companies just joined in this part. This is because the 3G license is just about to be assigned by the government and most of the vendors have just signed the contracts with operators for 3G equipments. The next step for them are to develop the next generation network. So in this way, the Task Group also wants to wait for China to catch up.
The procedure of Working Group letter ballot has started. The next meeting is planned to be held in July 2007, in San Francisco, USA.. And more technical contributions and comments are supposed to appear. We hope the IEEE802.16j standard can be a very powerful complement of WiMAX for its difficulty in the legacy Base Station coverage.
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