GSMA (GSM Association) and 17 global mobile operators and manufacturers, announced today that Barcelona will be the implementation of a universal charger standard, the goal in 2012 to implement universal charging solutions to global and Micro-USB as a universal Universal Charging interfaces.

The organization is expected that this will eliminate up to 51,000 tons of copies and the charger can be reduced by about 50% of the energy efficient standby power consumption of the charger.

GSMA CEO Rob Conway said members of the Board, in dealing with environmental issues, the mobile industry need to be playing a key role in the scheme can save significant resources.

With the GSMA also announced support for the scheme operators and manufacturers including: 3 Group, AT & T Inc. (AT & T), KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telecom Italia , Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone.

USB actual equipment Forum (USB-IF) in the January 4, 2007 issued by the Micro-USB plug standard. Micro-USB plug, plug life to 10,000 times.