3GPP Partnership
3GPP, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998.
The collaboration agreement brings together a number of telecommunications standards bodies which are known as “Organizational Partners”.
The current Organizational Partners are ARIB, CCSA, ETSI, ATIS, TTA, and TTC.
The establishment of 3GPP was formalized in December 1998 by the signing of the “The 3rd Generation Partnership Project Agreement”.
The purpose of 3GPP is to prepare, approve and maintain globally applicable Technical Specifications
and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on the evolved GSM core networks,
and the radio access technologies supported by the Partners (i.e., UTRA both FDD and TDD modes),
to be transposed by the Organizational Partners into appropriate deliverables (e.g., standards).
Some of the most well-known 3GPP members:
Apple, AT&T, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, KPN, LG, Lucent, Microsoft,
Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Philips, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sharp, Siemens, Sun, Toshiba and Vodafone,
to name but a few.
Scope and objectives of 3GPP
The 3rd Generation Mobile System and its capabilities shall be developed in a phased approach.
Initially, 3GPP shall prepare, approve and maintain the necessary set of Technical Specifications and
Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System including:
- UTRAN (including UTRA; in Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes);
- 3GPP Core Network (Third Generation networking capabilities evolved from GSM. These capabilities
include mobility management, global roaming, and utilisation of relevant Internet Protocols);
- Terminals for access to the above (including specifications for a UIM); and
- System and service aspects.
3GPP shall prepare, approve and maintain the necessary set of Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for:
- the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) including GSM evolved radio access technologies
(e.g., General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).
3GPP shall consider the long term evolution.
The Technical Specifications and Technical Reports shall be developed in view of global roaming and circulation of terminals.
The set of 3GPP Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for the 3GPP core network and the specifications
for the GSM core network should be common to the greatest extent possible and should not be unnecessarily different.
Options in the form of a regulatory requirement particular to one or more regions / nations shall be included
in 3GPP specifications. TSGs should not debate the inclusion or rejection of such options.
The results of the 3GPP work shall form the basis of member contributions to the ITU in accordance with existing procedures.
3GPP shall take account of emerging ITU recommendations on interworking between IMT-2000 family members.
In the framework of agreed relationships, the 3GPP Technical Specifications and Technical Reports will form
the basis of standards, or parts of standards, of the Organizational Partners.
For more information on 3GP, please visit www.3GPP.org, the official 3GPP website.
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3GPP: Partners in 3GP
3 (three.co.uk) | United Kingdom | ETSI |
7 LAYERS AG | Germany | ETSI |
ACCESS Systems Europe GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
AePONA LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Aeroflex | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Agere Systems Deutschland GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
Agilent Technologies Int Japan | Japan | ARIB |
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Airbiquity Incorporated | United States | ETSI |
Airgo Networks, Inc. | United States | ATIS |
ALCATEL S.A. | France | ETSI |
Alcatel Shanghai Bell Co. | China | CCSA |
mdocs Software Systems Ltd | Ireland | ETSI |
Andrew Corporation | United States | ETSI |
Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
Anite Telecoms Ltd. | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Anritsu Corporation | Japan | ARIB |
ANRITSU LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Apple Computer Inc | United States | ETSI |
AQSACOM S.A. | France | ETSI |
ArrayComm, Inc | United States | ATIS |
ASPECTS Software | United Kingdom | ETSI |
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. | Taiwan, Province of China | ETSI |
AT&T | United States | ATIS |
Axalto SA | France | ETSI |
Azaire Networks | United States | ETSI |
Bamboo MediaCasting | Israel | ETSI |
BenQ Mobile GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
BfV | Germany | ETSI |
BMWA | Germany | ETSI |
BOUYGUES Telecom | France | ETSI |
BridgePort Networks | United States | ETSI |
Broadcom Corporation | United States | ETSI |
BT Group Plc | United Kingdom | ETSI |
CableLabs | United States | ETSI |
Cambridge Silicon Radio | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Camiant, Inc. | United States | ATIS |
CATT | China | CCSA |
CCL/ITRI | Taiwan, Province of China | ETSI |
CEA | France | ETSI |
Celltick Technologies Inc. | Israel | ETSI |
CETECOM GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
CETECOM S.A. | Spain | ETSI |
CGC Inc. | Taiwan, Province of China | ETSI |
Checkpoint Systems GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
China Mobile Com. Corporation | China | CCSA |
CHTTL | Taiwan, Province of China | ETSI |
Cingular Wireless LLC | United States | ATIS |
Cisco Systems Belgium | Belgium | ETSI |
CNES | France | ETSI |
Coding Technologies | Germany | ETSI |
COMNEON GmbH & Co | Germany | ETSI |
Comprion GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
ComSquare AG | Switzerland | ETSI |
Comverse Network Systems | Netherlands | ETSI |
Convedia Corporation | Canada | ETSI |
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd | Japan | ARIB |
Digital Fountain | United States | ATIS |
Dilithium Networks, Inc. | United States | ATIS |
DoCoMo Communications Lab. | Germany | ETSI |
DTI | United Kingdom | ETSI |
eAccess Ltd | Japan | ARIB |
Electronic Technology Systems | Germany | ETSI |
Elektrobit Ltd. | Finland | ETSI |
Elisa Corporation | Finland | ETSI |
Empower Interactive Group Ltd | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Ericsson Inc. | United States | ATIS |
ERICSSON LM | Sweden | ETSI |
ESTS | United States | ETSI |
ETI A/S | Denmark | ETSI |
ETRI | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
EUSKALTEL S.A. | Spain | ETSI |
FED. MINISTRY FOR TRANSPORT | Austria | ETSI |
FICORA | Finland | ETSI |
Finnet Group | Finland | ETSI |
Flarion Technologies | United States | ETSI |
Flextronics | Finland | ETSI |
Followap Inc. | United States | ETSI |
France Telecom | France | ETSI |
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft | Germany | ETSI |
Freescale Semiconductor Israel | Israel | ETSI |
Freescale Semiconductors | France | ETSI |
FUJITSU Laboratories of Europe | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Fujitsu Limited | Japan | TTC |
Fujitsu Limited | Japan | ARIB |
GEMPLUS S.A. | France | ETSI |
GET (Groupe des Ecoles de Tel) | France | ETSI |
GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
Global Locate Inc. | United States | ETSI |
GOLDEN BRIDGE TECHNOLOGY INC. | United States | ETSI |
Hewlett-Packard | France | ETSI |
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Co. Ltd. | China | ETSI |
HuaWei Technologies Co., Ltd | China | CCSA |
IAEI | Israel | ETSI |
IBM EUROPE | Germany | ETSI |
Icera Semiconductor | United Kingdom | ETSI |
IICS | Germany | ETSI |
Ikivo AB | Sweden | ETSI |
I'M Technologies Ltd | Singapore | ETSI |
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES | Germany | ETSI |
Inmarsat | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Institut EURECOM | France | ETSI |
Institute for Infocomm Researc | Singapore | ETSI |
INTEL CORPORATION SAS | France | ETSI |
INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS | United States | ETSI |
IPWireless Inc. | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Japan Radio Co., Ltd | Japan | ARIB |
KATHREIN-Werke KG | Germany | ETSI |
KDDI Corporation | Japan | ARIB |
Kineto Wireless | United States | ATIS |
KPN N.V. | Netherlands | ETSI |
KT Freetel Co., Ltd. | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
LG Electronics Inc. | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
LG Electronics Mobilecomm | France | ETSI |
LG TeleCom | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
LogicaCMG | Ireland | ETSI |
Lucent Technologies | United States | ATIS |
Lucent Technologies N. S. UK | United Kingdom | ETSI |
MARCONI COMMUNICATIONS | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Matsushita Electric Industrial | Japan | ARIB |
MELCO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS | France | ETSI |
Microelectronica Espanola SA | Spain | ETSI |
MICROSOFT EUROPE SARL | France | ETSI |
MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIA | Spain | ETSI |
Mitsubishi Electric Co. | Japan | ARIB |
Mitsubishi Electric Corp | Japan | TTC |
MOTOROLA A/S | Denmark | ETSI |
MOTOROLA GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
MOTOROLA Ltd | United Kingdom | ETSI |
MOTOROLA S.A.S | France | ETSI |
M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers | Israel | ETSI |
Nanjing Ericsson Panda Com Ltd | China | CCSA |
National Communications System | United States | ATIS |
NEC Corporation | Japan | TTC |
NEC Corporation | Japan | ARIB |
NEC EUROPE LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
NEC Technologies (UK) LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
NemeriX SA | Switzerland | ETSI |
NeuStar Inc. | United States | ETSI |
NewStep Networks Inc. | Canada | ATIS |
Nextreaming Corp. | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
Nippon Ericsson K.K. | Japan | ARIB |
NOKIA Corporation | Finland | ETSI |
Nokia Japan Co, Ltd | Japan | ARIB |
Nokia Telecommunications Inc. | United States | ATIS |
NOKIA UK Ltd | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Nortel Networks | United States | ATIS |
NORTEL NETWORKS (EUROPE) | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Nortel Networks Germany GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
Northstream AB | Sweden | ETSI |
Norwegian P & T Authority | Norway | ETSI |
NTT | Japan | ARIB |
NTT DoCoMo Inc. | Japan | ARIB |
NTT DoCoMo Inc. | Japan | TTC |
O2 plc | United Kingdom | ETSI |
OBERTHUR CARD SYSTEMS S.A. | France | ETSI |
OFCOM (CH) | Switzerland | ETSI |
Ofcom (U.K.) | United Kingdom | ETSI |
ÖFEG | Austria | ETSI |
Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. | Japan | TTC |
Oksijen Teknoloji | Turkey | ETSI |
OnAir N.V. | Netherlands | ETSI |
Openet Telecom | Ireland | ETSI |
Openwave Systems (N.I.) Ltd | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Operax | Sweden | ETSI |
Oracle Corporation | United States | ETSI |
ORANGE SA | France | ETSI |
ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
Panasonic (PMCDE) | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Panasonic Mobile Comm. | Japan | ARIB |
Panasonic Mobile Communication | Japan | TTC |
PANASONIC R&D Center Germany | Germany | ETSI |
Pantech Co., Ltd | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
Pantech&Curitel Communications | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
Philips International B.V. | Netherlands | ETSI |
PIDS | Netherlands | ETSI |
Polaris Wireless | United States | ATIS |
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa | Poland | ETSI |
Powerwave Technologies | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Powerwave Technologies Sweden | Sweden | ETSI |
PTK CENTERTEL | Poland | ETSI |
QUALCOMM EUROPE S.A.R.L. | France | ETSI |
Qualcomm Japan Inc | Japan | ARIB |
RealNetworks | United States | ETSI |
Renesas Technology Europe | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Research in Motion Limited | Canada | ETSI |
RFI Global Services Ltd | United Kingdom | ETSI |
RITT | China | CCSA |
Rogers Wireless Inc. | Canada | ATIS |
ROHDE & SCHWARZ | Germany | ETSI |
ROHM Electronics GmbH | France | ETSI |
SAGEM Group | France | ETSI |
SAMSUNG Electronics | United Kingdom | ETSI |
SAMSUNG Electronics Co. | Japan | ARIB |
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
SASKEN COMMUNICATION TECHN.LTD | India | ETSI |
Seiko Epson Corporation | Japan | ARIB |
setcom wireless products GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
SFR | France | ETSI |
SGS Taiwan Ltd. | Taiwan, Province of China | ATIS |
SGS Testing Korea Co., Ltd | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
Shanghai Research Center | China | CCSA |
SHARP Corporation | Japan | ARIB |
SHARP Manufacturing France S.A | France | ETSI |
SIEMENS AG | Germany | ETSI |
Siemens nv/sa | Belgium | ETSI |
SIEMENS S.p.A | Italy | ETSI |
SiGe Semicondutor (Europe) Ltd | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Silicon Laboratories | United States | ETSI |
SiRF Technology Inc | United States | ETSI |
SK Telecom | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
Smart Trust AB | Sweden | ETSI |
SOFTBANK BB CORP | Japan | TTC |
SONOFON A/S | Denmark | ETSI |
Sony Ericsson Mobile | Japan | ARIB |
Spirent Communications | United States | ETSI |
Sporton International Inc | Taiwan, Province of ChinaChina | ETSI |
Spreadtrum Communications | United States | ETSI |
SPRINT | United States | ETSI |
ST Incard S.r.l. | Italy | ETSI |
Starent Networks Corporation | United States | ETSI |
STMicroelectronics | Switzerland | ETSI |
Stoke Inc | United States | ETSI |
STREAMEZZO | France | ETSI |
Sun Microsystems Ltd | United Kingdom | ETSI |
SWISSCOM | Switzerland | ETSI |
Tata Consultancy Services | India | ETSI |
TATARA SYSTEMS INC. | United States | ETSI |
TD Tech Ltd | China | CCSA |
TDC TELE DANMARK A/S | Denmark | ETSI |
TEKELEC Network | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Telcordia Technologies | United States | ATIS |
Telcoware Co., Ltd | Korea (Republic of) | TTA |
TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A. | Italy | ETSI |
Telecom Modus Ltd. | United Kingdom | ETSI |
TELECOM. RESEARCH CENTER (FTW) | Austria | ETSI |
TeleCommunication Systems | United States | ETSI |
TELEFONICA S.A. | Spain | ETSI |
Telekom Austria AG | Austria | ETSI |
TELENOR ASA | Norway | ETSI |
TeliaSonera AB | Sweden | ETSI |
TELKOM SA LIMITED | South Africa | ETSI |
TELSIS SYSTEMS LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
TEXAS Instruments | France | ETSI |
TEXAS Instruments Japan Ltd | Japan | ARIB |
THOMSON | Germany | ETSI |
Tieto Enator Telecom R&D | Sweden | ETSI |
T-Mobile (UK) | United Kingdom | ETSI |
T-Mobile Austria | Austria | ETSI |
T-MOBILE DEUTSCHLAND | Germany | ETSI |
T-Mobile International AG | Germany | ETSI |
T-Mobile USA Inc. | United States | ATIS |
TNO | Netherlands | ETSI |
Top Optimized Technologies S.L | Spain | ETSI |
Toshiba Corporation | Japan | ARIB |
TOSHIBA RESEARCH EUROPE LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
TruePosition Inc. | United States | ETSI |
TTP Communications plc | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Union Inter. Chemins de Fer | France | ETSI |
URTIP | Poland | ETSI |
UTStarcom | United States | ETSI |
VIA Technologies Inc | Taiwan, Province of China | ETSI |
VIDIATOR TECHNOLOGY (US) INC. | United States | ETSI |
VIPnet d.o.o. | Croatia | ETSI |
Vodafone D2 GmbH | Germany | ETSI |
VODAFONE Group Plc | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Vodafone K.K. | Japan | ARIB |
VODAFONE LTD | United Kingdom | ETSI |
Vodafone Omnitel N.V | Italy | ETSI |
VoiceAge Corporation | Canada | ETSI |
WAVECOM | France | ETSI |
WIND TELECOMUNICAZIONI SPA | Italy | ETSI |
XPonCard | Denmark | ETSI |
Yokogawa Electric Corporation | Japan | ARIB |
ZTE Corporation | China | CCSA |
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Organizational Partners
• CCSA.org.cn
• ETSI.org
• ATIS.org
• TTA.or.kr
• TTC.or.jp
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