Who We Are
Founded in 2011, GTI has been dedicated to constructing a robust ecosystem of TD-LTE, speeding up the commercialization of TD-LTE and promoting the convergence of LTE TDD and FDD. Today, GTI has become an influential cooperation platform with global presence with operators and key vendors, and has completed the GTI 1.0 mission by building an end-to-end TD-LTE ecosystem and achieving global commercialization of TD-LTE and converged LTE TDD/FDD.
In 2016, GTI 2.0 was officially launched during the GTI Summit 2016 held on Feb. 23rd at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, aiming to continue to promote the global development of TD-LTE, to encourage convergence with FDD and to foster a cross-industry innovative and a synergistic 5G ecosystem.
In 2023, GTI 3.0 was jointly launched at the GTI Summit 2023 during MWC Barcelona by China Mobile, SoftBank, T-Mobile US and over 20 industry partners, aiming to promote continued global cooperation toward greater commercial success.
LEADERSHIP
Leaders Committee
Sunil Bharti Mittal
Founder & ChairmanBharti Enterprises
Chairman/CEO
Chairman/CEO
CEO
KT
Masayoshi Son
Chairman & CEOSoftBank Group Corp
CEO
Vodafone
Steering Committee
Craig Ehrlich
Co-chairmanGTI
Gao Tongqing
Co-chairman, GTIExecutive Vice President, China Mobile
PS Tang
Managing DirectorArete M
Randeep Singh Sekhon
CTO for Airtel India and South AsiaBharti Airtel
Xu Da
5G Chief Strategy OfficerChina Broadnet
Guillermo Vazquez
Director Engineering & Technology of Broadband LatamDIRECTV Latin America - AT&T
Satoshi Konishi
Executive Vice President, KDDI Research
Vice President, Technology PlanningKDDI
Jongsik Lee
SVP
Head of Infrastructure DX R&D CenterKT
Dr. Chung Ng
SVP of Group CTO OfficePCCW-HKT Group
Mathew Oommen
PresidentReliance Jio
Osamu Kamimura
Vice President and
Head of Spectrum Policy OfficeSoftBank
John Saw
Group CTOT-Mobile US
Luke Ibbetson
Director of Strategy and R&D OrganizationVodafone Group
Wing K. Lee
CEOYTL Communications
Partner Forum Leadership Committee
Eduardo Ramirez
VP of Marketing of Infrastructure Business UnitArm
Ouyang Ye
CTO and SVPAsiaInfo Technologies
Sun Lixin
Chairman and CEOBaicells
Chen Shanzhi
CTO and EVP R&DCICT
Jan Berglund
Senior Director of Product & Solutions
International Business Development and MarketingComba Telecom
Magnus Ewerbring
Group CTOEricsson
Shawn Zhu
VP of Global MarketingFibocom
Joseph Teng
Product Development ChiefGreen Packet
Eric Zhao
Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
Wireless SolutionHuawei
Sachin Katti
Senior Vice President
General Manager of
Network and Edge GroupIntel
Howard Tsao
CTO of Broadband NetworksITRI
Ho-Chi Hwang
General Manager of Wireless
Technology GroupMediaTek
Aidy Zhang
VP, Head of Mobile Networks ChinaNokia
Tang Hai
Chief 5G ScientistOPPO
James Wilson
VP of Strategic MarketingQorvo, Inc.
Edward George Tiedemann
SVP of EngineeringQualcomm
Christoph Pointner
SVP for Mobile Radio Testers within
the Test & Measurement DivisionRohde & Schwarz
Cao Zhenhua
CMO (Chief Market officer)
Global Carrier BGRuijie Networks Corporation
Ben Lin
President and CTOSercomm
Nelson Wang
VP of Business DevelopmentSupermicro Computer
Qin Fei
President of Communications
Research Institutevivo
Tang Xue
Vice President of ZTE CorporationVice General Manager of RAN Product
GTI Secretariat
Huang Yuhong
Secretary GeneralGTI
GTI Secretariat is a management body, the members of which are only from GTI initiators. Secretariat mainly has the following duties and powers:
- Implementing the decisions of GTI and Steering Committee;
- Coordinating and managing the GTI bilateral, multilateral, and common activities;
- Drafting Operations Procedure and submitting to Steering Committee for review and approval;
- Drafting and submitting proposals to Steering Committee for review and approval;
- Executing the overall work plan of GTI.
A series of activities will be organized under the management of Secretariat, e.g. Summits, Roadshows, Exhibitions and Workshops.
GTI EVENTS
GTI will organize a series of activities to bring operators and vendors together for sharing development strategies and technology know-how, expediting the development of terminals and fostering of global roaming and low-cost terminals, etc.
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