Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication Systems (FPLMTS)

The World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in March 1992, identified global bands 1885-2025 and 2110-2200 MHz for Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication Systems (FPLMTS), including 1980-2010 and 2170-2200 MHz for the mobile satellite component. FPLMTS are third generation global systems which aim to unify the diverse systems we see today into a seamless radio infrastructure capable of offering a wide range of services, with the quality we have fixed the year 2000 in many different radio environments. The paper outlines some of the ITU standards work which is related to personal telecommunications currently under study in the Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and the Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R), formerly the CCITT and CCIR, in particular that of ITU-R Task Group 8/1 on FPLMTS.<
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