Our Vision
Imagine a world without wires, where verbal and visual communication is simple, convenient and reliable. The GSMA is dedicated to turning that vision into reality by promoting and developing the GSM platform for global mobile communications.
More than 3 billion people - over one third of the people on the planet - now use GSM. In fact, far more people have GSM mobile phones than have Internet access. GSM enables people to communicate easily and quickly on one number, almost anywhere in the world.
Now, as the GSM family offers high-speed data services, we face plenty of opportunities and challenges. These range from developing exciting multimedia services for existing mobile phone users, to bringing basic GSM services, such as voice calls and text messages, to people who have never experienced the benefits of communications.
Robert G. Conway
CEO, GSMA
Mission Statement
The GSMA's mission is to create value for operators and the mobile industry in the provision of services for the benefit of end users, so that those users can readily and affordably connect to and use the services they desire, anywhere, anytime.
Strategic Objectives
- To support the evolution and broadest deployment of the GSM family of technologies thereby enabling economies of scale and global interoperability
- To stimulate and support the development, launch and promotion of new services and products
- To ensure that mobile services are made interoperable on both a national and international basis as rapidly as possible
- To provide services to operators and the mobile industry, such as conferencing, that promote and serve the goals of GSMA
- To support initiatives which stimulate social and economic development and help bridge the digital divide
- To develop environmentally sound and socially responsible policies for the mobile industry, its products and services
- To advocate appropriate government policies and regulations on a local, regional and global basis in order to ensure the continued development of the mobile industry to the benefit of everyone
- To communicate on behalf of the GSM operator community and ensure that its views are clearly communicated and understood.
