NAKAMURA Hiroshi President DoCoMo Europe SA Session 22/11/01 – 16:30 Mobiles : au-delà de la téléphonie… (2) Mobiles: more than telephony (2).       Biographie/Biography Hiroshi Nakamura was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1962. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Waseda University in 1985 and 1987 respectively. He joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in 1987. He was engaged in research of signaling system for digital cellular system (PDC: Personal Digital Cellular system) duri ng 1987-1988 and development of the core network for PDC system during 1989-1991. Then he was engaged in development of mobile service control point (M-SCP) system during 1992-1994. Since then, he has been engaged in the standardization and development of the third generation mobile system, including network architecture, ATM AAL2 system, IP packet system, and so on. He was a chairman of IMT-2000 air interface Working Group of TTC (The Telecommunication Technology Committee) during 1997 – 2000. He was also a vice-chairman of 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) TSG-CN (Technical Specification Group – Core Networks) during 2000-2001. Now, he is vice-chairman of 3GPP TSG-SA (Technical Specification Group – Service & System Aspects) as well as ITU-T Special Study Group on “IMT-2000 and Beyond”. He is the president of DoCoMo Europe S.A. in Paris which is a base of NTT DoCoMo for the third generation mobile system standardization and the Beyond IMT-2000 system investigation.