Joins group that includes KTF, Rogers Wireless, Smart, Softbank, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telstra and Vodafone.
Huawei is the latest company to sign up to the GSM Association's $1 billion mobile broadband push, which aims to equip notebook PCs, cameras, MP3 players, refrigerators, cars and set-top boxes with 3G connectivity.Huawei itself says it has already shipped 20 million mobile broadband units in 115 countries.
A priority of the GSMA initiative is to develop a common API that consumer goods manufacturers will be able to use to make their products compatible with many different 3G mobile networks.
The organisation has already produced a flying birds/fluffy clouds 'kite mark' to go on such devices.
Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA, said: “Our ultimate goal is that every machine, device, object will have broadband mobile connectivity. Everything around us will be using mobile networks to exchange information with each other and with the Internet."
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Earlier this week the GSMA unveiled a separate drive to embed NFC technology in handsets.
