GSM Milestones
1982 | CEPT allocates 900 MHz spectrum for the use by a Pan-European mobile communication system and forms the "Groupe Spécial Mobil" (GSM), Chairman: Thomas Haug |
1982 – 1984 | Agreement on strategic targets in GSM |
1985 – 1987 | Agreement on principles for services, network architecture, radio and speech coding in GSM |
1986 | Trials of different digital radio transmission schemes and different speech codecs in several countries, comparative evaluation by GSM |
1987 (February) | CEPT GSM#13 meeting in Madeira: agreement on the basic parameters of the GSM system. Finalisation in May 87 in Bonn |
1988 (I Quarter) | Completion of first set of GSM specifications for infrastructure tendering purposes |
1988 (October) | Public presentation of the first set of GSM specifications at a conference in Hagen (Germany): 600 participants from Europe, USA and Japan, copies of specs on sale |
1989 | Standardisation work transferred from CEPT to ETSI. CEPT GSM becomes ETSI Technical Committee GSM (TC GSM) |
1990 | GSM Phase 1 Specifications frozen in ETSI TC GSM |
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). |