Dear GTI members and partners,

10^th GTI Workshop will be held on 9^th – 10^th June, 2014, in Sheraton Pudong, Shanghai, China.

This Workshop will focus on the key areas in GTI Network Working Group, Terminal Working Group, Business & Service, Spectrum Working Group, and 3.5GHz Interest Group. The meeting will be organized into plenary sessions which focus on the latest progress in GTI Working Groups, and separate sessions for respective Working Groups for in-depth discussions. Please find an invitation attached, and below is the overview agenda for this 2-days meeting. If you are interested in any topic, please feel free to contact WG Chairs to submit contributions.

Highlights:

•       Carrier Aggregation (Requirement, roadmap, and whitepaper), Nanocell and eMBMS

•       GTI Spectrum Database Demo

•       Low-Cost, Dual-Sim and 3.5GHz Device

•       4G Innovative Industrial Application

•       WiMAX Migration to TD-LTE and Funding Solution

•       Global Roaming and Business Modeling

•       VoLTE and RCS

On behalf of GTI, we kindly invite you to participate in this workshop. Should you have any question or comment, please feel free to contact us.

We look forward to seeing you in Shanghai.

Best Regards,

GTI Secretariat

Registration

In order to avoid the resource waste caused by register's absence, registration fee for delegates from GTI Partners (vendors) will be charged. China Mobile will sponsor operator attendee's registration fee.

Step One: On-line Registration

Registration for the meeting provides the GTI Secretariat and meeting planners with important planning information. Please visit GTI website and register the 10th GTI workshop online.

http://www.lte-tdd.org/php/user/user.php?act=reg&mid=41

Step Two: Pay for Registration fee (Vendors)

We will review your application within 5 working days. If the registration is approved, operators and organizations will receive a confirmation letter; vendors will receive an email including the payment process.

Registration fee:

The registration fee will be used for paying your share of meeting room rental, equipment rental (Wi-Fi, projector, stereo), refreshment, lunch and etc. We have a rough estimate about all the cost (not including accommodation) that will happen during 10th Workshop for each person (detailed expenses will be presented during Plenary Session).

For vendors, only after completing the payment, confirmation letter will be sent for attending the workshop.

*Contacts: webmaster@lte-tdd.org;

Hotel Information

A block of hotel rooms have been reserved for GTI members and partners in the meeting hotel Sheraton Pudong, Shanghai (5 Star) and the hotel nearby FourPoints by Sheraton (4 Star). The group rate is Single Room (Superior King / Twin Room) at CNY 1,000 at Sheraton Shanghai (5 Star Hotel Standard); Single Room (Comfort King / Twin Room) at CNY 800.00 at Four Points by Sheraton (4 Star Hotel Standard). City Tax, Breakfast and Internet are included in the above rate.

If you would like to book this hotel room, please fill out the Hotel Reservation Form_10th GTI Workshop and send back DIRECTLY to the Hotel by fax at  (+86) (21) 5870 7003 , or email to reservation.grp@sheraton.com before the cutoff date Monday, 19 May, 2014. If you have any question about the reservation, please call (+86) (21) 5039 9999*2746 or *2745.

We have limited reserved rooms, please book as early as possible.

Draft meeting plan

* The detailed agenda and meeting room plan will be updated later.