TSG SA / AT&T / John Wiley & Sons Ltd / Nokia / Ericsson / Special Mobile Group / AMR / Cingular / MIu Radio / WG1 Radio / Project Coordination Group / Siemens / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Japan / United States / Korea / China / /
Event
FDA Phase / Business Partnership / /
Facility
WG4 Terminal / European Telecommunications Standards Institute / WCDMA terminal / Mobile station / Terminal Testing / University of Sherbrooke / /
IndustryTerm
early networks / co-ordination / speech services / terrestrial radio access network / cellular networks / Wireless Telecommunication Standard / wireline telephony / payphone services / Internet connectivity / technology making use / higher bit rates and better network / speech and data services / bearer services / basic telephony / supplementary services / radio technology / external networks / radio technologies / radio access network / analogue networks / radio link protocol / 3G multimedia services / service capability protocols / Wireless Communication Consortium / session management protocols / line identification services / mobility management / cellular network / network management / network protocols / terminal equipment / /
European Telecommunications Standards Institute / ETSI SMG / Association of Radio Industries and Business / Telecommunications Industry Alliance/Electronic Industries Alliance / University of Sherbrooke / United Nations / Transcoder and Rate Adapter Unit / Channel Codec Unit / Telecommunications Technology Committee / Telecommunication Technology Association / /
Person
Markus Hakaste / /
Position
base station controller / /
Product
WG5 / IMT-2000 / GERAN / EDGE / /
RadioStation
EDGE Radio / /
TVStation
TFO / /
Technology
service capability protocols / SMS / CDMA / GPS / WCDMA UMTS technology / two radio technologies / D-AMPS / GSM system / radio link protocol / Packet Data Convergence Protocol / circuit-switched / cellular telephone / frequency hopping / WCDMA technologies / radio frequency / aspects WG2 Protocols / GSM / session management protocols / TDMA / 3G / network protocols / /
1 GSM/EDGE Standards Evolution (up to Rel’4) Markus Hakaste, Eero Nikula and Shkumbin Hamiti The standardisation work of GSM-based systems has its roots in the 1980s, when a standardisation body ‘Groupe Special Mobil