The international success of GSM

The GSM standard setting process was coordinated in the GSM group (Groupe Special Mobile) in which the European public post administrations (PTT) and 

The MoU initially called for a launch of the first GSM service by July 1 1991, but the commercial launch of GSM was delayed because the agreement on tiie final specification between all the participants came too late to develop t st equipment needed to develop GSM base stations and handsets. As a result, handsets were not yet available when the first operators switched on their networks in 1992. The cellular boom started in Europe in 1994.In the same year the fiist 

After reviewing the merit of cordless and cellular technology in Europe, ETSI decided to use the cellular GSM specification for the 1800 MHz band, first named DCS1800 and later GSM1800 (Paetsch 1993, p. 329). Most European countries adopted the new GSM standard as well. 

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