The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) released product compliance test documentation for the OBSAI open interface specifications. The documentation contains a full set of compliance test procedures, specifications and test cases to cover all the essential modules and interfaces of the current OBSAI specifications.

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Companies can use the test specifications in their own test facilities or in independent test laboratories. The provision of test specifications is a key benefit of the OBSAI standards initiative and allows operators to have confidence that products from different manufacturers, working to the OBSAI standards, have been tested for interoperability.

OBSAI also has completed the integration of WiMax technology into the Baseband—RF interface specifications—showing the versatility of the OBSAI open interface specifications.

A chief benefit of OBSAI's specifications is that they are air interface agnostic and are compatible with WCDMA, CDMA, GSM and GSM/EDGE technologies. The superiority of the OBSAI BTS architecture made it simple to add WiMAX to the RP3 interface.

John S. Csapo, OBSAI Management Board, said, "OBSAI has achieved a first in the industry by creating these specifications by using our expert members across the BTS, component and module vendor domains. True interoperability and a horizontal mode of operation are getting closer and closer. In fact, the first OBSAI components already meet the requirements of the OBSAI specifications."