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WiMedia Alliance promotes UWB in China

From "Alliance Courts Chinese Industry, Pushes WiMedia UWB Progress," Wireless IQ, 12 October:

"The WiMedia Alliance announced the official opening of a chapter in China to facilitate its work with Chinese regulators in allowing ultra-wideband (UWB) in their country.

"At a conference in Beijing yesterday attended by 500 representatives from the Chinese government, academia and technology companies, WiMedia Alliances officials engaged their Chinese colleagues in a dialogue...

"WiMedia's China Chapter will initially focus on promoting UWB and the organization to manufacturers and consumers within China and establishing working relationships with key Chinese regulatory officials who oversee technological development within radio and broadband platforms.

"Future initiatives of the WiMedia China Chapter will involve working with Chinese and international standards bodies for technology standardization and to ensure consumers receive a high degree of interoperability with their UWB devices.

"The announcement of the launch of the WiMedia China chapter was made in conjunction with the WiMedia-hosted global UWB Summit in Beijing yesterday. The summit offers a comprehensive look at the impact of UWB in a wide variety of personal computing (PC), consumer electronics (CE), and mobile devices and how it stands with complementary and competing technologies as China regulators consider allowing UWB technology into their country.

"The initial members of the WiMedia China chapter are: Liu Dong, Director; Mark Bowles, China Chapter Liaison; Kevin Liu, Secretary General; Hua Ning, Marketing; Chen Wenkai, Policy; Ding Quanlong, Technical; and John Li, Certification and Testing...

"Representatives from The State Radio Monitoring Center of China, the Radio Frequency Planning Expert Consultative Committee in China, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), and Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing (IGRS) spoke at the summit, with keynotes given by WiMedia Alliance members Liu Dong, Director of the China Chapter, Jeff Ravencraft, President and Chairman of the USB-Implementers Forum, and Mike Foley, Executive Director of Bluetooth SIG...

"The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association that promotes and enables the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperability of ultra-wideband (UWB) worldwide."

[UWB: 12 October 2006]