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3GPP
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is collaborative effort among telecommunications associations to make
a globally applicable third generation (3G) mobile phone system specification. 3GPP specifications are based on the
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) specificaton. The 3GPP standard includes requirement for the Radio,
the Core Network and the Services architecture. The standard is grouped into releases with work currently being
conducted on Release 7 of the standard which focuses on QoS, latency reduction, broadband services and
m-commerce applications.
The groups leading the standardization of 3GPP are the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the
Association of Japanese Radio Industries and Businesses/Telecommunication Technology Committee (ARIB/TTC), the
China Communications Standards Association, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (North America) and Telecommunications Technology Association (South Korea).
Another term commonly seen is 3GPP LTE. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution and it is the name given to a project
within the 3GPP to improve the universal mobile telecommunications standard (UMTS) standard. The LTE project will result in the new release 8 of the
UMTS standard, including mostly or wholly extensions and modifications of the UMTS system.
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