3GPP

3rd Generation Partnership Project
Abbreviation3GPP
Formation1998 (1998)
TypeStandards organization
Region served
Worldwide
Websitewww.3gpp.org

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is an umbrella term for a number of standards organizations which develop protocols for mobile telecommunications. Its best known work is the development and maintenance of:[1]

3GPP is a consortium with seven national or regional telecommunication standards organizations as primary members ("organizational partners") and a variety of other organizations as associate members ("market representation partners"). The 3GPP organizes its work into three different streams: Radio Access Networks, Services and Systems Aspects, and Core Network and Terminals.[2]

The project was established in December 1998 with the goal of developing a specification for a 3G mobile phone system based on the 2G GSM system, within the scope of the International Telecommunication Union's International Mobile Telecommunications-2000, hence the name 3GPP.[3] It should not be confused with 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2), which developed a competing 3G system, CDMA2000.[4]

The 3GPP administrative support team (known as the "Mobile Competence Centre") is located at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute headquarters in the Sophia Antipolis technology park in France.[5]

  1. ^ 3GPP Scope and Objectives, 31 August 2007
  2. ^ "About 3GPP". 3GPP. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. ^ "3GPP Background". 7 June 2000. Archived from the original on 6 July 2000.
  4. ^ "3rd Generation Partnership Project 2". Archived from the original on 23 January 2004. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Mobile Competence Centre". 3GPP. Retrieved 10 March 2019.

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