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GSM and UMTS: The Creation of Global Mobile Communication
Edited by Friedhelm Hillebrand
Copyright q 2001 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBNs: 0-470-84322-5 (Hardback); 0-470-845546 (Electronic)

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