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Cellular networks - Evolution of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)

Author: Jérôme PONS

Publication date: May 10, 2007

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1. Commercial launch of UMTS service

The meanings of the many acronyms and abbreviations are summarized in a table in the Need to know more section [Doc. TE 7 369].

1.1 UMTS market in France

  • First UMTS licenses: in 2007, there are three cell phone operators in mainland France: Bouygues Telecom, Orange France and Société Française du Radiotéléphone (SFR). Each has been authorized to use frequencies in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands to operate its second-generation (2G) GSM (but also GPRS and EDGE) network: Orange France and SFR since March 25, 1991, and Bouygues Telecom since December 8, 1994. With the arrival of the third-generation (3G) UMTS standard, operators were authorized to use frequencies in the 2 GHz band: Orange France and...

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