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Chapter 1: GSM’s Achievements

Section 1: Introduction

Friedhelm Hillebrand

1.1.1 Introduction to the Content of the Book

This book describes how global mobile communication was made. It is written for those who

want or need to know how this was achieved e.g.:

† Young professionals who want to build their career on GSM and UMTS and need to

understand the basics

† Strategic and technical planners who want to drive the future GSM and UMTS develop￾ment

† Strategists who plan to repeat GSM’s success in the fourth generation

† Academics, who want to understand and analyse the development of GSM and UMTS;

† Activists in other large scale international communication projects who want to use

experiences gained

But the book is also written for those about two thousand colleagues who participated in

the work and want to have a record of the events or to have a more comprehensive image, of

what happened in the different branches of the very big network of groups.

GSM is the system which started in Europe and was accepted by the world. It provides

global mobile communication to:

† anybody: 500 million users from professionals to children in May 2001

† anywhere: 168 countries in all continents in May 2001

† any media: voice, messaging, data, multimedia

UMTS is built on the GSM footprint and plans to repeat the GSM success.

This book is focused on the pre-competitive sphere, the big co-operative effort, which

enabled the huge market success world-wide. The clarification of the strategies, the strategic

decisions on the broad avenues in service and system design and commercial concepts are

described. This book provides an insight into the process of how this was achieved and when.

In selected cases it shows the complexity of the process and the antagonism of the interests of

the different parties and the consensus building process in detail. The output of the process is

well documented in the technical specifications produced by the different groups. They can be

retrieved from the Internet.1

1 www.ETSI.org, www.3GPP.org, www.gsmworld.org or www.umtsforum.org. The GSM phase 1 standard can be

found on the attached CD ROM in folder A3, since it is not available from the Internet.

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)