The Global Certification Forum, known as GCF, is an active partnership between network operators, device manufacturers and the test industry.  Since its inception in 1999, the GCF membership has been responsible for creating an independent certification programme to help ensure the global interoperability between mobile devices and networks.

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (ngmn) intends to complement and support the work within standardization bodies by providing a coherent view of what the operator community is going to require in the decade beyond 2010.

The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) is an open forum launched by Telcos in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway.

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is the leading industry forum for developing market driven and interoperable mobile service enablers.

The Open IPTV Forum was created in March 2007, to provide an IPTV solution enabling a 'plug and play' experience for the end-users and filling a industry gap making it independent from the technology behind it.

The European Radiocommunications Office (ERO) is the permanent office supporting the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) of the CEPT. ECC is the Committee that brings together the radio- and telecommunications regulatory authorities of the 48 CEPT member countries.