National approaches to technology standards for mobile telecommunications

The standards´ acceptance process is not an easy path to navigate and is littered with successes and failures. Today´s mobile communication standards emerged through different processes: some through collaboration between government and business and others from businesses alone. Mobile technology is evolving at a rapid pace and the way in which standards are created is evolving as well. The purpose of this paper is to discuss standardization processes utilizing examples from American, European, Asian models. The background of technology standards will be discussed along with the impacts of different national models. The paper closes with a discussion focusing on the Chinese approach to telecommunication standards and the future of telecommunications standards.