BACKGROUND
Many phone users and car owners are concerned about the quality of hands-free communication through their mobile phones wirelessly connected with vehicle hands-free terminals (HFTs), as some mobile phones do not conform to the particular requirements specified in the Recommendations
ITU-T P.1100 and
ITU-T P.1110 for narrowband and wideband connections respectively.
At the request of the automotive industry, ITU has previously organized three test events on performance assessment of mobile phones against Chapter 12 of the above ITU-T Recommendations.
Mobile phones which successfully passed tests at the first, second and third ITU test event (May 2014, May 2016 and November 2016, respectively) are captured in a list of mobile phones which are compliant with chapter 12 of ITU-T P.1100 and ITU-T P.1110. This list has been used by automotive companies to recommend to their customers the use of these phones in cars.
The Roundtable is organized in follow-up to the above three ITU mobile phone test events. As evidenced by the results of these test events, the connectivity and voice quality of mobile phones wirelessly connected with vehicle hands-free terminals (HFTs) are still key issues for the automotive industry and have not been improved so far.
In this regards, the auto makers as well as mobile phone vendors are invited to discuss possible approaches to address such issues, including the feasibility of establishing a special logo which may appear on a HFT’s display in a car when a ‘listed’ phone connects to it.
The meeting Agenda is available
here.
