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About GSM Association
Founded in 1987, the GSM Association has played a pivotal role in the development of the GSM platform and of the global wireless industry.
Since its introduction our members and staff have created the landscape of success for global mobile communications via GSM. Ours is a story of international cooperation and collaboration, between people, companies and governments to create the world's first global wireless network.
The GSM Association (GSMA) is the global trade association that exists to promote, protect and enhance the interests of GSM mobile operators throughout the world. At the end of September 2005, it consisted of more than 675 second and third generation mobile operators and more than 150 manufacturers and suppliers. The Association's members provide mobile services to approaching 1.65 billion customers across more than 210 countries and territories around the world. The GSMA aims to accelerate the implementation of collectively identified, commercially prioritised operator requirements and to take leadership in representing the global GSM mobile operator community with one voice on a wide variety of issues nationally, regionally and globally.
GSM is a living and evolving wireless communications standard that already offers an extensive and feature-rich 'family' of voice and data services. The GSM family consists of today's GSM, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) and third generation GSM services (3GSM) based on the latest WCDMA technology. Together these platforms create GSM - The Wireless Evolution.
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