About Us

Who We Are

The Global Technology Association of InfoComm (GTI) is an international platform for innovation and global ecosystem collaboration. It was kicked off in 2011 by China Mobile, SoftBank, Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Sprint (now T-Mobile US) and other operators. After years of development, GTI has gathered over 400 operators and partner members worldwide, covering 66 countries and regions across six continents.

Objective and Positioning

GTI collaborates with industry, academia and research stakeholders across the global ICT sector to advance interdisciplinary integrated innovation, technology industrialization and globally unified standards, building an open, high-level and high-value collaboration platform for the global ICT ecosystem.
It serves as three interconnected platforms:
1.technological cooperation platform that pools worldwide innovation resources from industry, academia and research to carry out cutting-edge technical cooperation on key areas including 5G/5G-A, 6G, computing network and AI;
2.industrial cooperation platform that unites global infocomm and vertical industry partners to drive technology commercialization and digital intelligence, supporting global collaboration on technology, standards, products and business;
3.think-tank cooperation platform that brings together international organizations, consulting firms, top universities and leading experts to deliver think tank research, strengthen links between academia and industry, accelerate the integration of technology and applications, and foster cooperation on global development and governance.

GTI 3.0

GTI 3.0, which kicked off in 2023 and continues to this day, focuses on promoting the integration of networks and intelligence to drive inclusive AI for all. It advances intelligent, efficient, and green 5G-A technologies and products, fosters integrated innovation between 5G-A/6G, AI and other technologies, and empowers the digital and intelligent transformation of industries to create new value.

Looking back on GTI’s evolution

GTI 2.0 spanned from 2016 to 2022. During the 5G era, this phase further drove the evolution of 4G and expanded its global market footprint, supported the development of 5G and cross-industry innovation, and accelerated end-to-end maturity and large-scale global commercialization of 5G.

GTI 1.0 ran from 2011 to 2015. In the 4G era, GTI 1.0 built a robust TD-LTE ecosystem, accelerated the commercial rollout of TD-LTE, and promoted the converged development of LTE TDD and FDD, establishing TD-LTE as a mainstream global technology and enabling its large-scale commercial deployment.

The operation is guided by GTI Principles Document