UMTS Milestones
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1991 (October) |
ETSI TC GSM put in charge of UMTS specification activities in addition to the GSM work and renamed " TC SMG" (=Special Mobile Group). |
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1996 (March) |
UMTS Task Force Report on a UMTS strategy for Europe completed |
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1996 (Spring) |
Creation of the UMTS Forum as a world-wide body, dealing with market, regulation and spectrum aspects of UMTS. |
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1997 (February) |
Consensus on UMTS strategy achieved by ETSI TC SMG |
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1998 (I Quarter) |
Agreement on the basic concepts of the UMTS standard including services, radio and network aspects in ETSI TC SMG |
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1998 (December) |
Creation of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), transfer of the UMTS standardisation work to 3GPP |
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2000 (March) |
GSM/UMTS release 99 (LCS, UMTS fundamentals, UTRAN) completed by 3GPP, ETSI TC SMG and ANSI T1P1 |
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2000 (June) |
Transfer of the remaining GSM specification work to 3GPP, closing of ETSI TC SMG, creation of a new Technical Committee MSG (=Mobile Standards Group) responsible for European regulatory standards. |
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2001 |
GSM/UMTS Release 4 frozen by 3GPP (mainly enhancements of Release 99) |
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2002 |
GSM/UMTS Release 5 frozen (IMS, HSPDA, WAMR, evolution) |
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2005 |
GSM/UMTS Release 6 frozen (evolution) |
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2007 |
GSM/UMTS Release 7 frozen (evolution) |
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2008 |
GSM/UMTS Release 8 frozen (SAE, LTE, evolution) |
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2009 |
GSM/UMTS Release 9 frozen (evolution) |
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2009 end |
409 million UMTS users (WCDMA and HSPA) |
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2009 |
First LTE trials |