What is 3GPP compliant?

Worldwide. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is an umbrella term for a number of standards organizations which develop protocols for mobile telecommunications . Its best known work is the development and maintenance of: GSM and related 2G and 2.5G standards, including GPRS and EDGE.

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Is 5G a 3GPP standard?

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) members meet regularly to collaborate and create cellular communications standards. Currently, 3GPP is defining standards for 5G . Different groups, each with a specific focus area, make up 3GPP.

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What encryption does 5G use?

Data traffic within the 5G infrastructure is protected by state-of-the-art encryption . The devices and the network authenticate each other using integrity-protected signaling. This ensures that if a single component is compromised, the other components remain protected.

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Which 3GPP releases cover 5G?

After initial delivery in late 2017 of ‘Non-Stand-Alone’ (NSA) NR new radio specifications for 5G, much effort focused in 2018 on timely completion of 3GPP Release 15 – the first full set of 5G standards – and on work to pass the first milestones for the 3GPP submission towards IMT-2020.

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What are the 3GPP standards?

The term “3GPP specification” covers all GSM (including GPRS and EDGE), W-CDMA (including HSPA), LTE (including LTE-Advanced and LTE-Advanced Pro) and 5G specifications . Revised versions of many of these specifications are produced up to four times a year following the quarterly TSG plenary meetings.

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