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May 14 - 16, 2008   |   San Francisco Bay Area, California  
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  • Over 90,000 senior wireless engineers, executives, investors and marketing managers will access the WWC'08 program and flagship keynote speeches during the week of May 14-16. They include the on-site attendees and on-line members and participants across the global.

  • WWC'2008 will be an extremely important Technology and Strategy conference on emerging 4G global movement. Due to lots of technology insights and full freedom of technical debates, no media records and press releases are allowed during the conference, and medias must adhere to the strict policy of the WWC confidentiality rules.

  • Though rumor, but makes more sense at the moment that, Sprint is to be acquired by Deutsche Telecom or China Mobile. Sprint had been in serious problem both business and finance since 1999, and feels very hard for any new initiatives in wireless and mobile communication services. Sprint Xolm is becoming another MMDS which disappoints its investors and partners. To be honest, the acquire is good for its service subscribers and investors.

  • Los Alto Hill Capitals (LAHC), total assets over $80 Billions, approved to support 4G R&D and global marketing through USCWC and its owned 4G events worldwide. LAHC will also help set up China 4G R&D centers.

  • Do you know Sprint will postpone its WiMax Rollout until after 2010? China will stop TD-SCDMA project? Google will invest multi-billion dollars on 4G mobile development? iPhone will be the leading 4G mobile phone for the next decade? Join 9th WWC-4G Summit in San Jose, CA on May 14-15 for details, and book your seat now.

  • The final confirmed VIP Keynote Speakers of 9th WWC-4G Mobile Summit are listed in the Program website.

  • "Hypo vs. Technology - What's more important in driving new business? ", a hot discussion at the 2008 Innovation Day in Cupertino Cypress Hotel, California on April 5th attended by over 200 investors and experts in wireless and mobile communications. One of the case studies is on Sprint WiMax project. Sprint has been pushing broadband wireless mobility for over a decade, but all failed. Now, Sprint is working on final bet and also final stake, and we hope Sprint will be successful this time. Join 4G Summit'08 for detailed technology debates on US 4G Movement.

  • WWC'08 & 4G Summit'08 will be hosted in The Fairmont Hotel of San Jose, San Francisco Bay Area which is the best hotel in the Silicon Valley. For more information, please click on the Hotel website.

  • WWC'08 Diamond Sponsor - Intel's latest processor, codename Silverthorne, is designed for ultramobile PCs and mobile Internet devices. Click for more information.

  • WWC'08 Diamond Sponsor - Sieneon Technologies released the world's first OWA Smartphone reference board at 2008 Mobile World Congress which can support multiple OSs (Window Mobile, MacOS, Android, PalmOS, Nucleus, Symbian) and RTTs (GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiFi, WiMax, BT, GPS) in one handheld device powered by the innovative OWA technology.

  • The WWC steering committee listed the ten main predictions for the year 2008 in the wireless and mobile communication industry at the quarterly committee meeting on Jan. 12, 2008 in Los Alto Hill, California. Click here for the list of the predictions.

  • Invited by IEEE, Prof. Willie Lu, Chairman and Founder of WWC, presented the innovative "Open Baseband Processing Architecture for Future Mobile Terminal Design" at the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Silicon Valley chapter in view of his global technological leadership of the industry. His proposed OWA core platform will be widely utilized in future mobile phone systems including iPhone, Google Phone and leading Smart Phone providers.

  • First International Workshop on Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) Signal Processing for Future Converged Wireless and Mobile Communications (OWA-SP) will be on May 15, 2008 during WWC'2008 to foster the global collaborations of research and development on the future smart phone signal processing platform. Click here for more information on submission and program.

  • Verizon, a traditional mobile service provider, is it willing to open up its networks to the customers? Here's what members of the wireless industry are saying about Verizon Wireless' Nov. 27 announcement that it will give consumers the option to use any application and any wireless device that meets minimal technical requirements on its network. Openness and Simplicity are becoming the key points for future mobile services.

  • From Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, and to Google Guys, what did we learn from them? The answer from the Stanford University's business school becomes clear: Innovation, Collaboration and Partnership! That's exactly the same mission of World Wireless Congress and the 4G Mobile Summit - bringing together the industry innovative solutions and building the business partnerships for the future !

  • The future wireless and mobile communications will be shifted from the traditional transmission-specific technology to the interface-specific technology to be able to converge with the computer system architecture and support complete openness and simplicity for the future mobile phone - the message by Prof. Willie Lu and AT&T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson at Churchill Club Annual Assembly on Nov. 28th, 2007.

  • Prof. Willie W. Lu, founder and chairman of WWC mission, is to speak in Dow Jones Tech Summit and Forbes Forum to promote the upcoming ITU IMT-Advanced and 4G mobile technology as well as the global mission of WWC.

  • Most of the WWC founding sponsors join the Google spearheaded Open Handheld Alliance to support the open architecture of the future mobile phone which is the same vision and mission of WWC program.

  • USCWC Offers breakthrough Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) technology for Google's Android Application Platform to deliver the truly service-oriented wireless and mobile convergence infrastructure in supporting basically any wireless radio transmission technologies (RTTs). Click here for more on OWA_Android system architecture.

  • 2008 WWC will bring Fortune 500, Fortune 100 and Forbes 100 leading industries together with The Wall Street Journal and Forbes Magazine to discuss the key challenges of the ITU IMT-Advanced technology offerings including WiMax Xohm, TD-OFDMA and the wireless convergence solution. Stay tuned for the great program and the most influential executive speakers' team of the industry!

  • CTIA joins partnership with 4GMF to kickoff the US 4G movement at CTIA Wireless I.T. 2007 in Moscone Convention Center of San Francisco, California. 4GMF is to become the NO.1 and Flagship event for US 4G technology, business and investment. For more, please visit CTIA Wireless I.T. or 4GMF website.

  • USCWC releases the 2007 Edition of 4G Design Book CD containing over 6500 pages of technical design documents focusing on 4G and B3G development and innovations. To order the 4G CD, please click here.

  • United States is ready for 4G (fourth generation) technology movement in wireless and mobile communications. A strong message from the Churchill Club executive meeting with Kevin Martin, F.C.C. Chairman. (In the photo, the Right is Kevin Martin, FCC Chair, and the left is George Anders, Wall Street Journal).

  • Major 3G industrial leaders are really tired of current 3G activities and eager to leap for 4G new business development, a summary from the recent Dow Jones Wireless Innovation conference in California.

  • "The world is at the edge to reshape the mobile communications and liberate the whole wireless industry so that Users can Personalize the future mobile phone as Simple as a mouse", said Prof. Willie W. Lu, Chairman of 2007 4G mobile summit and 2007 World Wireless Congress. Simplicity and Personality has become the very critical issues in designing the future mobile phone. According to Junko Yoshida, news editor of EE Times, ease of use has become a "grave issue" in engineering including mobile phone industry. Designers, she said, must "listen to the SOS from consumers". Doug Engelhart, inventor of the computer mouse, considered many options for navigation on a computer screen but chose the mouse because it tested best with users, and most importantly, for its simplicity! See detailed report by EE Times.

  • In the Churchill Club "Top Ten Trends Event" on March 28th in San Jose, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said his prediction is that the cell phone will be the next PC. This is the same vision by Prof. Willie W. Lu, chairman of 4GMF, said in Stanford University in 2004 that, "The future radio phone is first, a computer, then an Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) terminal". OWA-based mobile phone gives consumers more choices for things to hang on their belts. Read this article by San Jose Mercury News.

  • WWC'2007 Congress Program is published in this website. WWC'2007 delegates include senior participants from Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Bechtel, China Mobile, Alcatel-Lucent, Apple, Google, Nokia, NEC, Sprint, Samsung, Qualcomm, DoCoMo, Motorola, AMD, Siemens, Nortel and HP, etc. as well as invited guests from Kleiner Perkins, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kauffman Foundation, Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, BlueRun Ventures and Churchill Club.

  • Over 10 world's leading venture capitals (VCs), with total assets of over $200 billion, will be joining WWC'2007 to witness the newest inventions and innovations in the next generation mobile phone technologies.

  • World's leading wireless architects will be joining forces together at WWC'2007 to define the future mobile phone including iPhone, Zune and M8, etc.

  • WWC Committee and Sponsors select Stanford Park Hotel at Stanford University as the venue for the 2007 annual congress. This is the best place for the worldly leading experts and executives to come together and join forces together in creating the future mobile wireless business and defining the wireless innovations for the next decade. Many global leading investors in Palo Alto and San Francisco, as well as global prominent medias will also be attending this important congress for the future wireless and mobile communication technologies.

  • What's the games behind the Great Wall of China ICT industry? Listen to the interview scripts with Prof. Willie W. Lu on China 3G Issues and WiMax issues by clicking this page.

  • Silicon Valley leading executives and experts will come together at WWC'2007 to define the future in wireless communications and create the business of wireless innovations for next decade. Over 500 major medias will be invited to witness this very important technology movement of the wireless and mobile industry.

  • IEEE Solid State Circuit Society (SSCS) invited Prof. Willie W. LU to discuss the emerging technology - Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) for the future mobile communications. OWA has recently become one of the hottest technology topics in Silicon Valley for the development of the Service-Oriented mobility convergence platform.

  • WWC'2007 will continue to deliver the newest technologies for the future mobile communications, such as open wireless architecture (OWA) technology, open spectrum management technology, radio health analytical modeling, service-oriented mobility infrastructure and secured wireless interface technology, etc. Stay tuned !

  • Over 20 CEOs of leading wireless industries (incld. Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, DoCoMo, Lucent, Ericsson, Alcatel, China Mobile, etc) agreed at the ITU Telecom World 2006 that the future mobile communications will be based on the converged and open architecture platform to deliver the open service-oriented architecture offerings.

  • WWC'2007 will bring together over 30 Fortune 100/Fortune 500 CEO, CTO and Senior VP for the Executive Summit to help create the future of wireless and mobile communications.

  • In Samsung's futureUNLIMITED Executive Summit, San Jose, 15th November 2006, Mr. George M. Scalise, President of U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association and also serving on President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, totally agreed that the future mobile phone will be based on open wireless architecture as a complete consumer electronic product when answering the question by Prof. Willie W. Lu during the summit.

  • 2007 is a year of global 4G Initialization. WWC'2007 will bring together world's leading 4G vendors, operators, providers and authorities to San Francisco to define the 4G technology and build the 4G business. ITU officials will also be invited to address the upcoming program on 4G standardization activities.

  • Professor Willie W. Lu predicted at the 2006 Innovations Day in Palo Alto, California that the future wireless communications will follow two laws: Open Spectrum and Open Architecture. Any company having such technology will play the key role in the industry.

  • Delson Group is to release the world's first "4G & B3G Design Book CD" (Special Edition) at the ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong to mark the historic movement of 4G research and development across the global.

  • Invited by International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Prof. Willie Lu will present the Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) Technology for the Fourth Generation mobile communications at the ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong on December 5th, 2006.

  • Invited by major medias in China, Prof. Lu delivered the very important China 4G media release and interview (in Chinese) at Sina.com in Beijing HQ during the GMC'2006 conference. This media interview has been distributed in over 100 other medias in China as a milestone guideline for China's future mobile communications development. The interview will strongly influence China's position on 3G, TD-SCDMA, WiMax and future 4G technologies.

  • GMC'2006 was very successful. Over 50 Chinese decision-makers have been involved in this important annual B3G/4G technology summit, and over 10 major medias had reported this prestigious technology conference in Beijing.

  • Approved by the Delson Group board and Mission 2020 R&D Funds, Palo Alto, the 2007 8th World Wireless Congress (WWC'2007) will be in San Francisco, May 21 thru 23 of 2007 with theme "Wireless Innovation for Next Decade".

  • WWC'2006 keynote speech slides are available at the WWC'2006 website at: http://delson.org/wwc06/keynote.htm.

  • Fortune 500 leading wireless companies and Silicon Valley leading industries will be joining forces together at the WWC'2006 in San Jose to define the future wireless and mobile communications platform, set the industrial standards and build the business team for the next decade. Join the WWC'2006 and get involved in this historic movement !

  • Delson Group Released the 4G Design Book with over 6000 pages' technical materials specialized in 4G and B3G technologies. It is an authoritative design handbook for the 4G/B3G engineers, designers, developers and researchers, comprising of newest design solutions from global leading industries and research institutions.

  • CTIA Wireless 2006 in Las Vegas delivered an important message to the world: The Wireless World will go Converged and Open platform in next decade. Join WWC'2006 and be prepared for this historic movement !

  • WWC'2006 will announce the world's first GSM/GPRS/UMTS/WiMAX/WLAN 5-in-1 core. Stay tuned !

  • On March 21st in Stanford University, the Silicon Valley's Who's Whos, including founders of Sun, Yahoo, D.E. Shaw, Rambus, Netscape, Silicon Graphics, and over 200 eminent professors and technologists joined forces together in celebrating the 40 years' anniversary of SU's computer science, and defining the future technologies of computer science and communications engineering. One of the important conclusions from this very influential symposium is that the future computer architecture will be integrated into the wireless architecture, and making both architectures open is the only solution for this revolutionary integration ! The meeting was moderated by John Markoff, New York Times.

  • WWC is rooted in a worldly base of talents and knowledge with around 9,000 MIT alums, 6,000 Stanford alums and 8,000 Berkeley alums in this San Francisco bay area. Every single day, over 5,000 patents are filed from SF bay area in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). WWC is becoming a well recognized platform of R&D collaboration and business insights in the emerging 4G/B3G industry.

  • It's time to adjust your China business strategy after the 2006 People's Congress of China on March 5th through 18th. To know how it affects the China 3G and WiMax business, join the WWC'2006 for detailed analysis.

  • WWC'2006 released updated marketing ads worldwide. Please download the WWC'06 brochure here.

  • Over 20 Fortune 500 giant companies (including Intel, Qualcomm, TI, Bechtel, Cisco, Microsoft, Alcatel, China Mobile, Samsung, Oracle, IBM, Harris, Philips, etc) join forces together in defining the future technologies for wireless and mobile communications platform at the upcoming WWC'2006 in San Jose, California.  Welcome join this historic movement !

  • 2006 Special Training on 4G-OWA technologies is published in website. Please register ASAP as seats are very limited.

  • Over 100 eminent professors and industrial experts met together in University of California, Berkeley (U.C. Berkeley) on Feb.23rd for the 2006 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium with theme "Looks to the Future - The Future of EECS". Many professors including Prof. Jan Rabaey and Prof. Willie Lu totally agreed that the future of wireless infrastructure will be based on open wireless architecture (OWA) with topics such as cognitive radio, spectrum recycling, background-calibrated ADC and ambient wireless router, etc. Prof. John Canny also stated that the future mobile phone will be a social platform with open system architecture supporting various technologies.

  • WWC'06 is to kickoff the future converged wireless and mobile system platform for the ITU IMT-Advanced mission.

  • U.S. Office of Prof. Willie W. Lu announced the new IEEE Special Issue of "TECHNOLOGIES ON FUTURE CONVERGED WIRELESS AND MOBILITY PLATFORM" in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine to be published in April 2007. Please click this link for more information on Call-for-Paper of this very important IEEE special issue.

  • All WWC papers (over 1,000 papers since 2000) have been successfully registered in EI Compendex Index to reflect the academic advancement in the field. WWC papers are also registered in the U.S. Copyright Office for global protection.

  • Breaking News from ITU WP8F 18th meeting in Bangkok: a) An unified global standard of mobile communications becomes extremely difficult and almost impossible; b) An open wireless architecture (OWA) based converged wireless platform will become feasible and make sense in both business and technology. ITU IMT-Advanced (the ITU 4G Program) will be targeting this direction in long run.

  • WWC releases the global Call-for-Participation marketing Ads in USA and Europe. Please feel free to distribute it !

  • WWC has been an influential 4G/B3G technology conference since its founding in 2000. Capturing the global mobile 4G wave and delivering the industrial 4G solutions are always the mission-critical tasks for WWC program. WWC is the No.1 4G technology summit in the United States and the Asia-Pacific Region on the mission of ITU IMT.Advanced.

  • With rapid growth of WWC conference and its global influence in the industry, the WWC'2006 will be hosted in the heart of the Silicon Valley - DoubleTree Hotel San Jose, to keep the pace and heartbeat of the newest technology movements of the world's center for innovation and performance. Click for meeting venue and hotel information.

  • WWC formally unveiled a new brand identity that represents a significant milestone in the conference’s history and further signifies the mission and objective of global industrial R&D alliance dedicated to driving the wireless future.

  • WWC'2006 registration information is published on the Registration Page. You are encouraged to register ASAP.

  • Over 30 famous scientists and industrial technologists met together on Dec. 17th in Palo Alto, next to Stanford University, in discussing the Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) platform including baseband, RF and applications, for the next generation wireless and mobile communication systems. The meeting was sponsored by Delson Group and several venture capitals in the Silicon Valley of San Francisco Bay Area.

  • WWC'2006 will release the "San Francisco Declaration" to define the future technology, build the team and set the strategy in the next generation wireless and mobile communications. Join us together for this historic movement !

  • U.S. CWC released special reports on emerging 3G and WiMax markets in China. Visit the reports website for details.

  • DG released the 2006 "Mission 2020" R&D Plan on events to over 10 major medias in US, EU and Asia. Please download the published release of 2006 "Mission 2020" events by clicking this link.

  • WWC joins forces with U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren to strongly support  The Innovation Agenda to secure America's leadership in business, technology and academics, "We believe that The Innovation Agenda will keep America the world leader in discovery, education, scientific research and economic growth", said Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren in her e-mail to Prof. Willie W. Lu. WWC and its sponsors will strongly support this important mission in the United States.

  • [Breaking News from Palo Alto, California, Nov. 22, 2005] Over 20 global leading wireless industries will announce the historic San Francisco Declaration in WWC'2006 to define the future Fourth Generation Mobile Communications (4G) and set the future standards for the industrial alliances.

  • WWC'2006 will deliver the B3G Technology White Book focusing on system architecture, product definition, emerging research and business strategy of the industry.

  • Delson Group board approved the 2006 4GMF Annual Conference to be in Hong Kong during the ITU Telecom'2006 in Hong Kong on Dec. 4th through 8th. 4GMF'06 will be strongly supported by China government and major industries.

  • GMC'2005 was EXTREMELY successful in Chongqing, China. Over 30 major medias including Xinhua News, CCTV, Chongqing Daily and China Finance have reported this very important mobile congress in China. For more information, please visit the GMC'2005 Snapshots page and GMC'2005 Media Reports page.

  • Under the "MISSION 2020 (R)" R&D Plan, approved by the board of Delson Group, the China GMC'2006 will be held in Beijing, the capital of People's Republic of China, to help build the region's future in next generation wireless and mobile communications focusing on long-term R&D strategy as well as emerging technical issues in the field. Delson Group is the legal owner and primary investor of the WWC, GMC and WMC missions in North America, East Asia and West Europe.

  • Strongly supported by Chinese central government, the 2005 Global Mobile Congress (GMC'05) is to help define China's future mobile communication technologies with over 40 key decision-makers of China authorities and administrations, as well as over 500 senior experts and executives to join this historic mobile summit. Click the "GMC'05 official website" for more information on GMC'05 in Chongqing - the center of West China.

  • Major Fortune 500 wireless companies will be involved in WWC'2006. WWC'2006 will release the official "Mission 2020 San Francisco Declaration".

  • WWC'2006 is to kickoff the "Mission 2020 (R)" R&D Plan in Wireless and Mobile Communications to define the future technologies of year 2020 and beyond. Stay tuned for this important global mission !

  • Delson Group releases government strategic report on "WiMax in China: Unclear Future" after near 20 months' in-depth research with many authority officials and experts in the field. Report consultation available for primary sponsors only.

  • United States and China support Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) as a long-term wireless industrial strategy, with short-term development focus on converged broadband wireless systems.

  • United States Copyright Office approved the copyright protection of all WWC proceedings (WWC2000 - WWC2005) to secure Delson Group's worldwide technical leadership in the emerging R&D of B3G and 4G mobile technologies.

  • Breaking News /Shanghai, July 18th: China set long-term strategy of wireless communication industry on open wireless architecture (OWA) platform and service-oriented application platform for its next generation wireless and mobile communication technologies.

  • GMC'05 becomes the extremely important technical and R&D summit of China's emerging mobile communications focusing on China 3G (C3G) Rollout strategy and Network Optimization; "Mission 2020" R&D Plan of future Mobile Technologies, and Secured Networks and Systems for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. For more details, please visit the GMC'05 webpage.

  • U.S. CWC started initial testing of 4G-OWA (Open Wireless Architecture) technology in USA and China to meet the rapidly increasing demand of the converged broadband wireless platform in the region. Many countries, including China and USA, will go OWA as a long-term strategy, and therefore the OWA business will be huge in the coming decade.

  • The Delson Group board and WWC chairman have approved the WWC'2006 project in San Francisco of United States to continue its important mission in promoting the R&D, education and business of next generation wireless and mobile communications. Please stay tuned for this great event again in San Francisco / Silicon Valley.

  • Since 2005, World Wireless Congress (WWC) spun-off its World Mobile Congress (WMC) or called Mobile World Congress (MWC) to be more focused on 4G mobile communications. The WMC program will be independently operated or co-organized with WWC.

  • WWC'2005 was very successful in Palo Alto, San Francisco Bay Area. Click WWC'2005 Webpage for details on important Keynote speeches and Technical sessions.

 

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