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Contents
Chapter 1 GSM’s Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 2 GSM and UMTS Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Section 3 GSM Success Measured by Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2 The Agreement on the Concepts and the Basic Parameters of the GSM Standard
(Mid-1982 to Mid-1987). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 1 The Market Fragmentation in Europe and the CEPT Initiatives in 1982 . . . 11
Thomas Haug
Section 2 The GSM Standardisation Work 1982–1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Thomas Haug
Section 3 The Franco-German, Tripartite and Quadripartite Co-operation from 1984 to 1987 23
Philippe Dupuis
Section 4 The GSM Memorandum of Understanding the Engine that Pushed GSM to the
Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Stephen Temple
Section 5 The Role of the European Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Philippe Dupuis
Chapter 3 The Detailed Specification Work Leading to the GSM Phase 1 Standard used for
the Opening of Service (1987–1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Thomas Haug
Chapter 4 Consolidating GSM Phase 1 and Evolving the Services and System Features to
GSM Phase 2 in ETSI SMG (1992–1995). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Philippe Dupuis
Chapter 5 Evolving the Services and System Features to Generation 2.5 by the GSM Phase
2+ Program (1993–2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 1 The GSM Phase 2+ Work in ETSI SMG from 1993 to 1996 . . . . . . . . . . 73
Philippe Dupuis
Section 2 The GSM Work in ETSI SMG from May 1996 to July 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 80
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 3 GSM Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Ansgar Bergmann
Chapter 6 GSM Goes to North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Don Zelmer
Contents
Chapter 7 The UMTS Related Work of the European Commission, UMTS Taskforce,
UMTS Forum and GSM Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Section 1 The European Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Joa˜o Schwarz da Silva
Section 2 The European Regulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Ruprecht Niepold
Section 3 The UMTS Taskforce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Bosco Fernandez
Section 4 The UMTS Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Thomas Beijer
Section 5 Spectrum Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Josef Huber
Chapter 8 The UMTS Standardisation Work in ETSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Section 1 The Initial Work in ETSI SMG (up to Spring 1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Philippe Dupuis
Section 2 The Creation of the UMTS Foundations in ETSI from April 1996 to February
1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Chapter 9 The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Section 1 The Creation of 3GPP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Karlheinz Rosenbrock
Section 2 UMTS in 3GPP (December 1998 to May 2001) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Niels P.S. Andersen
Chapter 10 Services and Services’ Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Section 1 The Early Years up to the Completion of the First Set of Specifications for
Tendering of Infrastructure (1982 to March 1988) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 2 The Years from Mid-1988 to early 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Alan Cox
Chapter 11 System Architecture Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Michel Mouly
Chapter 12 Radio Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Section 1 The Early Years from 1985 to 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Didier Verhulst
Section 2 The Development from 1995 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Michael Fa¨rber
Chapter 13 The Subscriber Identity Module, Past, Present and Future . . . . . . . . . 341
Klaus Vedder
Chapter 14 Voice Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Kari Ja¨rvinen
Chapter 15 Security Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Mike Walker
Chapter 16 Short Message and Data Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Section 1 The Early Years up to the Completion of the First Set of Specifications in March
1988 for Tendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 2 The Development from Mid-1988 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Kevin Holley
Section 3 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Wolfgang Roth and Ju¨rgen Baumann
Chapter 17 Mobile Stations Type Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Remi Thomas and David Barnes
Chapter 18 Operation and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Gisela Hertel
Chapter 19 Professional Technical Support and its Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Section 1 The PN in the CEPT Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Bernard Mallinder
Section 2 PT12 and PT SMG in the ETSI Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Ansgar Bergmann
Section 3 MCC in the 3GPP and ETSI Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Adrian Scrase
Chapter 20 Working Methods and their Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Ansgar Bergmann
Chapter 21 The Contributions of the GSM Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Section 1 Co-operation of the Operators from the Agreement of the GSM MoU to the
Opening of Service in 1991/1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Renzo Failli
Section 2 God Send Mobiles, the Experiences of an Operator Pioneer. . . . . . . . . . . 490
George Schmitt
Section 3 The Evolution from the Informal GSM MoU Group to the GSM Association from
1992 to 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Arne Foxman
Section 4 The Evolution of the GSM Association from 1998 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Petter Bliksrud
Section 5 The Work on Services Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Armin Toepfer
Section 6 The Work on Data Interchange for International Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Michael Gießler
Section 7 The Third Generation Interest Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Neil Lilly
Chapter 22 GSM and UMTS Acceptance in the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Section 1 Global Acceptance of GSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 2 Global Acceptance of UMTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Bernd Eylert
Chapter 23 GSM Success Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Contents
Annex 1 Plenary Meetings of GSM, SMG, TSG SA, GSM MoU, GSMA. . . . . . . . . . 549
Annex 2 Organisation Evolution of the Technical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Annex 3 Lists of Chairpersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Annex 4 List of Key Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Index
Chapter 1 GSM’s Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 2 GSM and UMTS Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Section 3 GSM Success Measured by Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2 The Agreement on the Concepts and the Basic Parameters of the GSM Standard
(Mid-1982 to Mid-1987). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 1 The Market Fragmentation in Europe and the CEPT Initiatives in 1982 . . . 11
Thomas Haug
Section 2 The GSM Standardisation Work 1982–1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Thomas Haug
Section 3 The Franco-German, Tripartite and Quadripartite Co-operation from 1984 to 1987 23
Philippe Dupuis
Section 4 The GSM Memorandum of Understanding the Engine that Pushed GSM to the
Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Stephen Temple
Section 5 The Role of the European Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Philippe Dupuis
Chapter 3 The Detailed Specification Work Leading to the GSM Phase 1 Standard used for
the Opening of Service (1987–1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Thomas Haug
Chapter 4 Consolidating GSM Phase 1 and Evolving the Services and System Features to
GSM Phase 2 in ETSI SMG (1992–1995). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Philippe Dupuis
Chapter 5 Evolving the Services and System Features to Generation 2.5 by the GSM Phase
2+ Program (1993–2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 1 The GSM Phase 2+ Work in ETSI SMG from 1993 to 1996 . . . . . . . . . . 73
Philippe Dupuis
Section 2 The GSM Work in ETSI SMG from May 1996 to July 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 80
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 3 GSM Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Ansgar Bergmann
Chapter 6 GSM Goes to North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Don Zelmer
Contents
Chapter 7 The UMTS Related Work of the European Commission, UMTS Taskforce,
UMTS Forum and GSM Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Section 1 The European Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Joa˜o Schwarz da Silva
Section 2 The European Regulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Ruprecht Niepold
Section 3 The UMTS Taskforce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Bosco Fernandez
Section 4 The UMTS Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Thomas Beijer
Section 5 Spectrum Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Josef Huber
Chapter 8 The UMTS Standardisation Work in ETSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Section 1 The Initial Work in ETSI SMG (up to Spring 1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Philippe Dupuis
Section 2 The Creation of the UMTS Foundations in ETSI from April 1996 to February
1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Chapter 9 The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Section 1 The Creation of 3GPP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Karlheinz Rosenbrock
Section 2 UMTS in 3GPP (December 1998 to May 2001) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Niels P.S. Andersen
Chapter 10 Services and Services’ Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Section 1 The Early Years up to the Completion of the First Set of Specifications for
Tendering of Infrastructure (1982 to March 1988) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 2 The Years from Mid-1988 to early 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Alan Cox
Chapter 11 System Architecture Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Michel Mouly
Chapter 12 Radio Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Section 1 The Early Years from 1985 to 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Didier Verhulst
Section 2 The Development from 1995 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Michael Fa¨rber
Chapter 13 The Subscriber Identity Module, Past, Present and Future . . . . . . . . . 341
Klaus Vedder
Chapter 14 Voice Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Kari Ja¨rvinen
Chapter 15 Security Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Mike Walker
Chapter 16 Short Message and Data Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Section 1 The Early Years up to the Completion of the First Set of Specifications in March
1988 for Tendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 2 The Development from Mid-1988 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Kevin Holley
Section 3 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Wolfgang Roth and Ju¨rgen Baumann
Chapter 17 Mobile Stations Type Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Remi Thomas and David Barnes
Chapter 18 Operation and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Gisela Hertel
Chapter 19 Professional Technical Support and its Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Section 1 The PN in the CEPT Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Bernard Mallinder
Section 2 PT12 and PT SMG in the ETSI Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Ansgar Bergmann
Section 3 MCC in the 3GPP and ETSI Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Adrian Scrase
Chapter 20 Working Methods and their Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Ansgar Bergmann
Chapter 21 The Contributions of the GSM Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Section 1 Co-operation of the Operators from the Agreement of the GSM MoU to the
Opening of Service in 1991/1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Renzo Failli
Section 2 God Send Mobiles, the Experiences of an Operator Pioneer. . . . . . . . . . . 490
George Schmitt
Section 3 The Evolution from the Informal GSM MoU Group to the GSM Association from
1992 to 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Arne Foxman
Section 4 The Evolution of the GSM Association from 1998 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Petter Bliksrud
Section 5 The Work on Services Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Armin Toepfer
Section 6 The Work on Data Interchange for International Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Michael Gießler
Section 7 The Third Generation Interest Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Neil Lilly
Chapter 22 GSM and UMTS Acceptance in the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Section 1 Global Acceptance of GSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Section 2 Global Acceptance of UMTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Bernd Eylert
Chapter 23 GSM Success Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Contents
Annex 1 Plenary Meetings of GSM, SMG, TSG SA, GSM MoU, GSMA. . . . . . . . . . 549
Annex 2 Organisation Evolution of the Technical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Annex 3 Lists of Chairpersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Annex 4 List of Key Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Index