The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998. The collaboration agreement brings together a number of telecommunications standards bodies which are known as "Organizational partners". The current Organizational Partners are ARIB/TTC (Japan), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), ATIS (North America), and TTA (South Korea).
The original scope of 3GPP was to produce globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes). The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).
3GPP releases:
The original scope of 3GPP was to produce globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes). The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).
3GPP releases:
- Release 99: Complete. Include enhancements to GSM/GPRS (EDGE). Support for GSM/EDGE/GPRS/WCDMA radio-access network. Most deployment today uses R99.
- Release 4: Complete. MMS support. Efficient interconnection of CN infrastructure over IP networks.
- Release 5: Complete. Delivered HSDPA and first phase of IMS. Half of WCDMA network
deployments now include the HSDPA evolution. - Release 6: Complete. Includes HSUPA, enhanced multimedia support using Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS), performance specifications for advanced receivers, WLAN integration, and evolution of the IP Multimedia System IMS.
- Release 7: On-going (expected mid-2007). Enhanced GSM data functionality. Optimisation/fine tuning of earlier releases for performance enhancements, improved spectral efficiency, increased capacity, and better resistance to interference. Also provides optimisations for VoIP over HSPA.
- Release 8: In progress (expected 2009). Constitutes a refactoring of UMTS as an intirely IP based fourth generation network.
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