The GSM Association (through its GPRS Working Party within the
International Roaming Expert Group) has collected information on
potential providers of GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) services.
The information obtained was compiled into a single file, which
you can download as a zip
file. The format of the file was chosen to allow for easy comparison
of the various GRX Providers' answers.*
The information will be updated by the GSM Association upon request
by the respective GRX Provider in accordance with these Rules,
which also apply, to companies that wish to offer GRX services
in the future.
Date |
Description |
| 7th June 2000 |
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Deadline for proposing potential
GRX Providers for the 1st round |
| 21st
June 2000 |
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RFI sent out
to potential GRX Providers |
| 12th July 2000 |
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Deadline for answers for the 1st
round of the RFI |
| 19th
July 2000 |
|
Deadline for
proposals for potential GRX Providers |
| 26th July 2000 |
|
Detailed questionnaire sent out
to potential GRX Providers of the first round as well as new
entrants (2nd round) |
| 9th
August 2000 |
|
Deadline for
answers for the 2nd round of the RFI |
| 30th August 2000 |
|
Publication of RFI Results for
GSMA Members |
| 5th
September 2000 |
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The GPRSWP decided
on the future publishing and updating rules for
the compiled information |
The RFI did NOT cover commercial issues since the individual GPRS
Operators entering into a Roaming relationship should negotiate
those issues with the GRX Providers directly.
1. |
The compiled results of the GRX RFI are published
on the internet. This requires an initial legally binding
statement authorizing the GSMA to "publish the information
that has been and will be provided to the GSMA within the
GRX RFI process on its public internet web page". Please
send those statements to the surface mail address stated
at the bottom. In the absence of such authorization the GSMA
will not be able to publish the respective GRX Provider's
information. |
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2. |
The GSMA is NOT and will NOT be "qualifying", "evaluating", "recommending" etc.
GRX Providers. There-fore the GRX Providers shall refrain
from giving any such impression when advertising their services.
The fact that information on their service offer is published
by the GSMA does ONLY mean that they provided it in a format
suitable for publication. |
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3. |
There will be an update mechanism for the
information as described below:
- New versions of the results shall be made available as
soon as new information is available from any of the previously
known and / new GRX Providers.
- To avoid releasing updated versions in short intervals,
new releases shall only be made over the weekend.
- New releases will include any information received before
Friday 08:00 GMT.
- If no new information has been received no new release
will be made.
- In order to be included in the processing of information,
the respective GRX operators have to use the most recent
version of the Questionnaire and have to restrain their
answers and changes to those fields of the questionnaire
that are intended for that.
- As need arises, the GPRSWP will decide on additions to
the Questionnaire.
- Whenever changes are introduced, the available information
of every GRX Provider will be transferred to the new format
and the resulting file will be forwarded to the respective
GRX Provider.
- The version number of the answer file ("x.y.z")
is used for two different purposes: "x.y" is
used to reflect changes to the questionnaire and will only
be changed by the GSMA while "z" is to be used
by the re-spective GRX Provider to reflect changes to the
information content of the answer file. Please remem-ber
to increment "z" whenever you submit a new answer
file.
- The compilation of results will be based on the most
recent version of the respective answer files.
- Please send the information to the following email address: Brian
Hunter.
- New GRX Providers may obtain an empty Questionnaire by
sending an E-Mail to the address stated at the bottom.
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4. |
The GSMA will NOT host ANY original material on the GRX
Providers due to the effort required to update and test the
links. It was decided that the compiled results will include
one (1) link to the respective page on the GRX Provider's
web site. This link will be contained in the "Contact" worksheet. |
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5. |
The "Contact" worksheet of the compiled results
will also contain the date of last update of the information
provided by the respective GRX Provider as well as the identification
of the answer file. This information will be generated automatically
during the compilation process. |
