The 3rd Cross-Forum Meeting among FuTURE MOBILE COMMUNICATION FORUM, mITF (Japan), NGMC (Korea) and WWRF (Europe), was held in Shanghai Regent Hotel on April 25, 2006. The meeting was attended by top leaders, experts, and scholars from the four parties. The main topics of the meeting were about the issues related to the service, the system requirements and the frequency of ITU WRC-07 WP8F. The experts and scholars from each forum introduced their preparations for the meeting, outlined the latest research achievements related to above subjects, and proposed the follow-up working plans.

At first, as the representative from FuTURE MOBILE COMMUNICATION FORUM, Mr. Wang Jian, the chairman of the 3rd working group, introduced the work done by the Mobile Radio Spectrum and Propagation group and the working objectives for this year which was mainly focused on the preparative research on the frequency problems that will be discussed on WRC-07 Conference held in 2007. He also specified the latest progress in the research achieved by the working group in phrase one. He described the demands on the frequency for Chinese B3G business and actual application of the frequency. Based on the information above, he presented a detailed analysis on the application of all B3G candidate spectrums, the availability of these and the underlying problems.

Then Professor Ji Yang, the chairman of the 2nd working group, who made a speech titled with “B3G service, application and system requirements”, in which the results achieved by the 1st and 2nd working groups during the phase one were introduced. In the speech, he comprehensively demonstrated the research framework and achievements of B3G service, application and system requirements from various aspects such as B3G vision, reference model, user requirements, classified applications, business capabilities, terminal system requirements, and network access requirements, and consequently proposed the principal research scope in the future.

The representatives of mITF from Japan introduced Japanese preparation for ITU-R SG8 (WRC-07) Conference held in 2007 and their organizational reconstruction of Japanese Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (Abbreviated as “ARIB”).

The experts, representatives of NGMC from Korea, introduced the reconstruction of each working group under the direction of Market Business Working Commission, introduced the specific research scope of each working group, and Korean preparation for the 19th conference of ITU WP8F. In addition, experts from the System Demands Ad-Hoc working group of NGMC introduced the research scope and the specific research plan of Ad-Hoc working group, and illustrated the achievements of B3G system demands from various aspects, such as the concept model, frequency demand, general demands, system special demands and etc..

Mikko A. Uusitalo, Chairman of WWRF, introduced the progress of the research on the B3G system concepts and demands made by WWRF. The experts from WWRF also reported on their preparation for the WRC-07 Conference held in 2007. The workshop also offered the experts the opportinities to discuss the details of pre-conference preparation about spectrum for ITU-R SG8(WRC-07) conference held in 2007.

The experts and representatives fully exchanged their opinions on the preparation and article submission for the ITU WRC-07 WP8F, discussed the practical ways for cooperation and communication and determined the exact time and main subject for the next Cross-Forum Meeting. Praised by all the four parties for its targeted communication and productive working methods, the Cross-Forum Meeting reached a successful conclusion.

Top meeting of the four forum	Experts from FuTURE Forum 1
Experts from FuTURE Forum 2	Experts from mITF
Experts from WWRF	Report made by FuTURE Forum
Report made by FuTURE Forum	Report made by mITF
Report made by mITF	Report made by WWRF
Report made by WWRF	Discussion
Ceremony of Subscription of Cooperative Memorandum 1	Ceremony of Subscription of Cooperative Memorandum 2
Conference Scene 1	Conference Scene 2