The NGMN Alliance seeks to incorporate the views of all interested stakeholders in the telecommunications industry and is open to three categories of participants (NGMN Partners): Mobile Network Operators (Members), vendors, software companies and other industry players (Contributors), as well as research institutes (Advisors). The purpose of the alliance is to provide requirements and guidelines for providing mobile services that are both innovative and accessible with focus:
- evaluate and guide the technological evolution towards the full implementation of 5G;
- network disaggregation with the aim of driving the development of open, disaggregated, virtualized and Cloud native solutions with a focus on an end-to-end operating model;
- green future networks with the aim of building sustainable and environmentally friendly technical solutions;
- 6G with the aim of identifying the use cases required by society and the main technological developments for their provision, design considerations and requirements.
The activity of NGMN is divided into projects, task forces and workshops in order to:
- establish clear requirements for next generation mobile networks;
- contribute to standardization bodies;
- provide a collaboration platform for assessing and addressing technical challenges;
- share best practices;
- identify and resolve the technical barriers to the creation of mobile telecommunication services.
NGMN publications are accessible here https://www.ngmn.org/publications.html.
NGMN plays a strategic role for TIM as it allows for discussions with peers worldwide and at the same time to discuss technical issues of interest. TIM is a member of the Board, consisting of the CTOs and the R&D Directors of the main global operators, and of the Strategic Program Committee. Furthermore, TIM leads the "Base Station Antenna Architecture" project, which defines the methods of describing the characteristics of the antenna systems of the mobile radio stations.
