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NEWS IN BRIEF

3GPP Excellence Awards

The 2021 awards are out, with four winners announced during the appropriate
Working Group meetings at the beginning of 2022.

This year’s outstanding contributors to the work of 3GPP are:

For contributions to For a commitment across For contributions to For demonstrating
multiple areas – Including multiple releases in 2021, improvements in the superior dedication and
control channel design, producing high quality area of Energy Efficiency, attitude while driving
MIMO, carrier aggregation, 3GPP specifications for with focus on EE KPIs multiple features for UE
coverage enhancement, Railways. and how to measure Power Consumption, 5G
UE features. them in the network, that System Architecture and
have become extremely Non-Public Networks.
important for 3GPP.

Peter Gaal Martin Öttl Jean-Michel Cornily Peter Hedman
TSG RAN WG1 TSG SA WG6 TSG SA WG5 TSG SA WG2

Ensuring interop for industrial use cases And the winner is…

In April, 3GPP Partners - Global Certification Forum (GCF) and In February, 3GPP SA4 colleagues picked up a Tech Emmy® for
the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation the development of media streaming protocol specifications
(5G-ACIA) have announced the signing of a cooperation that represent an extensive improvement in television
agreement to jointly investigate industrial 5G certification production. See the full story on Page 14.
needs.
This brings together operational technology & ICT companies
from industry with the experts from the GCF – to develop
testing and certification programs for Industrial IoT products’
conformance to standards from 3GPP.

3GPP’s MRPs:

Thanks to the 3GPP Market
Representation Partners in 3GPP,
for their continued support and
generous inputs to each edition
of 3GPP Highlights.

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