3GPP

3rd Generation Partnership Project

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 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, T1, TTA, and TTC. 

The original scope of 3GPP was to produce globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes).  The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).|more]

For SMIL profile used in 3GPP "MMS" (Multimedia Messaging Service) and Streaming Service, see 3GPP specifications (TS 26.140 defines MMS: http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/26140.htm and TS 26.234, Section B and Appendix B define the MMS SMIL profile: http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/26234.htm )

Links:

• http://www.3gpp.org/
• http://www.3gpp.org/faq/faq.htm
• http://www.3gpp.org/About/3GPP.ppt
• http://www.3gpp.org/specs/specs.htm