3GPP Specifications - Official Publications

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The 3GPP Technical Specifications and Technical Reports have, in themselves, no legal standing.  They only become "official" when transposed into corresponding publications of the Partner Organizations (or the national / regional standards body acting as publisher for the Partner). At this point, the specifications are referred to as UMTS within ETSI and FOMA within ARIB/TTC.

Some TRs (mainly those with numbers of the form xx.8xx) are not intended for publication, but are retained as internal working documents of 3GPP. Once a Release is frozen (see definition in 3GPP TR 21.900), its specifications are published by the Partners.  

• ARIB
  The specifications site (in English) is at http://www.arib.or.jp/IMT-2000/V310Sep02/DS_index.html. 
  

• CCSA (formerly CWTS)
  A list will be available soon 
  

• ETSI
  You can map 3GPP specification numbers to ETSI publication numbers. The ETSI publications can then be directly downloaded.
  

• ATIS (formerly T1)
  The 3GPP specifications are published by ATIS.
  

• TTA
  The TTA published standards include the 3GPP specifications.
  

• TTC
  A list is available in English of TTC published standards.

last updated

2006-03-09: TTA link updated
2004-07-02: T1 becomes ATIS
2003-10-21: editorial
2003-07-28: CWTS becomes CCSA
2002-10-21: link to ARIB publications added.
2002-07-18