UMTS Milestones
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). |
1996 (March) | UMTS Task Force Report on a UMTS strategy for Europe completed |
1996 (Spring) | Creation of the UMTS Forum as a world-wide body, dealing with market, regulation and spectrum aspects of UMTS. |
1997 (February) | Consensus on UMTS strategy achieved by ETSI TC SMG |
1998 (I Quarter) | Agreement on the basic concepts of the UMTS standard including services, radio and network aspects in ETSI TC SMG |
1998 (December) | Creation of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), transfer of the UMTS standardisation work to 3GPP |
2000 (March) | GSM/UMTS release 99 (LCS, UMTS fundamentals, UTRAN) completed by 3GPP, ETSI TC SMG and ANSI T1P1 |
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. |
2001 | GSM/UMTS Release 4 frozen by 3GPP (mainly enhancements of Release 99) |
2002 | GSM/UMTS Release 5 frozen (IMS, HSPDA, WAMR, evolution) |
2005 | GSM/UMTS Release 6 frozen (evolution) |
2007 | GSM/UMTS Release 7 frozen (evolution) |
2008 | GSM/UMTS Release 8 frozen (SAE, LTE, evolution) |
2009 | GSM/UMTS Release 9 frozen (evolution) |
2009 end | 409 million UMTS users (WCDMA and HSPA) |
2009 | First LTE trials |