The
3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (
3GPP2) is a collaboration between telecommunications associations to make a globally applicable third generation (
3G3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...
) mobile phone system specification within the scope of the
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's IMT-2000 project. In practice, 3GPP2 is the standardization group for
CDMA2000CDMA2000 is a family of 3G mobile technology standards, which use CDMA channel access, to send voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites. The set of standards includes: CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. 0, CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A, and CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. B...
, the set of 3G standards based on earlier
2G2G is short for second-generation wireless telephone technology. Second generation 2G cellular telecom networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja in 1991...
CDMA technology.
The participating associations are
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(Japan),
China Communications Standards Association,
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(North America) and
Telecommunications Technology Association (South Korea).
The agreement was established in December 1998.
Ultra Mobile BroadbandUMB was the brand name for a project within 3GPP2 to improve the CDMA2000 mobile phone standard for next generation applications and requirements...
(UMB) was a 3GPP2 project to develop a fourth-generation successor to CDMA2000. In November 2008,
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, UMB's lead sponsor, announced it was ending development of the technology, favoring
LTE3GPP Long Term Evolution, usually referred to as LTE, is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using new modulation techniques...
instead.
3GPP2 should not be confused with
3GPPThe 3rd Generation Partnership Project is a collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations, known as the Organizational Partners...
; 3GPP is the standard body behind the
Universal Mobile Telecommunications SystemUniversal Mobile Telecommunications System is a third generation mobile cellular technology for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed by the 3GPP , UMTS is a component of the International Telecommunications Union IMT-2000 standard set and compares with the CDMA2000 standard set for...
(UMTS) that is the 3G upgrade to
GSM networks, while 3GPP2 is the standard body behind the competing 3G standard
CDMA2000CDMA2000 is a family of 3G mobile technology standards, which use CDMA channel access, to send voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites. The set of standards includes: CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. 0, CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A, and CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. B...
that is the 3G upgrade to
CDMA networks used mostly in the United States (and to some extent also in Japan, China, South Korea and India).
GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA is the most widespread wireless standard in the world. A few countries (such as the USA, India, South Korea and Japan) use both sets of standards, but most countries use only the GSM family.
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