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APT REPORT On THE STANDARDIZATION PROGRESS OF Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) No. APT/AWF/REP-17 Edition: September 2010 Adopted by The 9th APT Wireless Forum Meeting 13 – 16 September 2010 Seoul, Republic of Korea ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNITY The APT Wireless Forum Soure: AWF-9/OUT-06 APT REPORT OF THE STANDARDIZATION PROGRESS OF Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) 1. Purpose of the Document One of the Convergence Sub-WG A (formerly Task Group-2) within the APT Wireless Forum (AWF) tasks, is to develop guidelines and to identify requirements for facilitating the convergence of fixed networks (e.g. PSTN / ISDN) that utilize FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) system that uses IMT-2000 terrestrial radio interfaces (e.g. WCDMA or CDMA2000 1X) with IMT-2000 (3G) mobile radio communications; and also to study the Fixed Mobile Convergence. Furthermore, Convergence Sub-WG A is entrusted to study the Standardization progress of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). The progress report of the study on the fixed mobile convergence standardization is presented in this document. The first version of this document was developed in the AWF-3 in Hanoi Vietnam, September 2006 (document no. AWF-3/ 32 (Rev.1)), and continuously updated in every AWF meeting and put as a TMP document. Although the development of the FMC standardization is still progressing, this report is finalized as of September 2010 in AWF-9 meeting. 2. Fixed-Mobile Convergence Definitions, Objectives and Principles There are several definitions of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), such as from ETSI, ITU-T Draft New Recommendation Q.1762/Y.2802 (formerly Q.FMC-REQ), ITU-T Recommendation Q.1763/Y.2803: FMC service using legacy PSTN or ISDN as the fixed access network for mobile network users, (formerly Q. FMC-PAM: PSTN Access for Mobile Users), ITU-T Recommendation Q.1761 and ITU-T Draft of Rec. FMC-IMS. These ITU-T draft recommendations are jointly developed by SG-13 (NGN) and SG-19 (Mobile). ETSI states that Fixed