cooperation agreement founded and made official in December 1998 between telecommunications associations (ARIB {Japan}, ETSI {Europe}, CCSA {China}, ATIS {North America} and TTA {South Korea})
(Teknoloji) 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the name given to a project within the Third Generation Partnership Project to improve the UMTS mobile phone standard to cope with future requirements. Goals include improving efficiency, lowering costs, improving services, making use of new spectrum opportunities, and better integration with other open standards. The LTE project is not a standard, but it will result in the new evolved release 8 of the UMTS standard, including mostly or wholly extensions and modifications of the UMTS system