GSM
The Conference of European Posts and Telecommunications
administrations (CEPT) created the Groupe Special Mobile
(GSM: now known as Global Systems for Mobile telecommuni-
The task for this group was the development of European
standards for mobile radio telecommunications.
The frequency range allocated to this purpose in the 1978
World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) was
890-915 MHz for mobile stations and
935-960 MHz for fixed stations.