GSM Association - time for a new name

At the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the three largest CDMA operators in the world, Verizon Wireless, KDDI, and China Telecom, announced that they were joining the GSM Association. Qualcomm, considered by many to be one of the leading proponents of the CDMA technology, is also an associate member of the GSM Association. This then raises the larger question: should the GSM Association drop the word “GSM” and re-label itself as Mobile Association or something similar? With both CDMA and GSM/UMTS operators deploying LTE in the next several years, the differences between the 2 sets of operators are starting to blur. The GSM World Congress realized this trend and renamed itself to Mobile World Congress some years back. It may now be time for the GSM Association to follow suit and re-label itself as well.