Driving the evolution and deployment of the GSM family of technologies
GSM Technology
The GSM family of technologies has provided the world with mobile communications since 1991. In over twenty years of development, GSM has been continually enhanced to provide platforms that deliver an increasingly broad range of mobile services as demand grows.
Where the industry started with plain voice calls, it now has a powerful platform capable of supporting mobile broadband and multimedia services.
GSM is now used in 219 countries and territories serving more than three billion people and providing travellers with access to mobile services wherever they go.
GSM
An open, digital cellular technology used for transmitting mobile voice and data services
GPRS
A very widely deployed wireless data service, available now with most GSM networks
EDGE
GSM Evolution (EDGE) technology provides up to three times the data capacity of GPRS
3G/WCDMA
The air interface for one of the International Telecommunications Union's family of third-generation mobile communications systems
HSPA
The set of technologies that defines the migration path for 3G/WCDMA operators worldwide
LTE
Designed to be backwards-compatible with GSM and HSPA, Long Term Evolution incorporates MIMO in combination with OFDMA
Services
GSM is fast becoming the most popular way to deliver information, communication and entertainment services to people worldwide
GSM Roaming
The ability for a customer to make and receive calls, send and receive data, or access other services when travelling outside the coverage area of their home network
IMB
A technology, defined as a part of the 3GPP Rel. 8 standard, which enables spectrally-efficient delivery of Broadcast services using TDD radio techniques.
