Standards help people speak across frontiers

Standards organizations are essential for making the whole network work across all kinds of equipment and regions, general manager of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) told Xinhua during the Mobile World Congress (MWC).

“The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards development organization... The industry has to agree on all the protocols and the way the network will work in order for the information from a call or text message to get from your Nokia phone on your ‘Vodafone’ network to your Samsung phone on your China Mobile network,” said Seth Newberry.