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GSM is now a fully evolutive systems, a platform which can accept improvements, new features, or modifications needed to adapt it to something which was not foreseen from the start. This is important for companies operating a GSM network, which can expect that there investment will be a sufficiently long-term one, but also to conquer new markets. The choice of UIC is an example. In another direction, some non-European markets are conquered with the unadulterated standard, but some other markets, like the US, may require adaptations. The success of GSM in these cases will depend on its flexibility, its adaptiveness to new constraints. Finally, mass-market cellular radio is still at its beginning. New schemes to improve cost and efficiency will be devised, the needs of the users will evolve, more and more new services to help them will be imagined. To meet these challenges will mean an even better return of the original investments made in GSM. The basis for these evolutions are there, and GSM will certainly make the best of this potential.
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The first part of this paper has been presented in a seminar internal to the SMG committee end 1993.
“Phase 2+ work program”, internal document of ETSI TC SMG.
“The GSM System for Mobile communication”, M. Mouly and M.B. Pautet, 1992, published by the authors, fax +33 1 69310338 for enquiries.
A number of papers are published about the major avenues for evolution of GSM. What follows is examples of such papers, presented at the MRC conference end of 1991.
“The performance of CELLPAC: a packet radio protocol proposed for the GSM mobile radio network”, B. Walke and alter, Mobile Radio Conference, Nice 1991.
“Satellite payloads equipped with active antennas for integration in the GSM network”, J.P. Cances and alter, Mobile Radio Conference, Nice 1991.
“GSM principles applied to digital trunked PMR systems”, M. Durvaux and alter, Mobile Radio Conference, Nice 1991.
“DECT system as an extension to GSM infrastructure”, A. Alvesalo, Mobile Radio Conference, Nice 1991.
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Mouly, M., Pautet, MB. (1994). The evolution of GSM. In: Günther, C.G. (eds) Mobile Communications Advanced Systems and Components. IZS 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 783. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57856-0_2
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