Appeal for Opinions on Draft Report from IP Network Facilities Subcommittee

1.Background and outline

  An environment surrounding mobile phones is changing significantly as seen in an explosive increase of communication traffic and diversified forms of use of communication services due to the rapid dissemination of mobile broadband services such as LTE and WiMAX and smart phones. In addition, in line with an improved communication quality by means of the switching over of best effort lines to broadband, 0AB-J IP phone services using these lines have been offered and new proposals have been made.
  Therefore, since April 2012, the IP Network Facilities Subcommittee has deliberated on functions with which IP mobile phone terminals using 080/090 numbers should be equipped, state of authentication of soft phones (those using 0AB-J numbers or 080/090 numbers) compatible to the switching over to IP and the concept of communication quality of 0AB-J IP phones using best effort lines.
  A draft report from the Subcommittee has been compiled on the result of the deliberation described above.
   “Draft Report from the IP Network Facilities Subcommittee” will be posted in the column of “press release” on the MIC website (http://www.soumu.go.jp) and the column of “public comments” on the e-government portal (e-Gov) (http://www.e-gov.go.jp) and also distributed at the counter of contact (IP Network Facilities Subcommittee Secretariat).
 

2.Subject of appeal for opinions and guidelines for appeal for opinions.

  The subject of appeal for proposals is the “Draft Report from the IP Network Facilities Subcommittee – Technical Requirements for IP Mobile Phone Terminals –.”
 

3.Deadline for appeal for opinions

  September 5 (Wed), 2012, 5:00 PM
 

4.Points to remember in submitting opinions

  Opinions submitted, names of persons who submitted opinions (in the case of legal persons, their names) and information on other attributes may be officially announced later.
  Please be reminded that the MIC is not able to give any individual answer to opinions submitted.
 

5.Future plans

  The MIC will compile a report based on opinions submitted within September 2012.