Table of Contents

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Foreword
1 Scope
  1.1 References
  1.2 Abbreviations
2 General
3 Services
4 System Architecture, Entities And Functions
  4.1 The Mobile Station (MS)
  4.2 The Base Station System (BSS)
  4.3 The Mobile-services Switching Centre (MSC)
  4.4 The Home Location Register (HLR)
  4.5. The Visitor Location Register (VLR)
  4.6. Group Call Register (GCR)
  4.7. Operation and Maintenance Centre (OMC)
  4.8. System architecture, interworking and
       interfaces
5 Subsystems of a GSM PLMN
  5.1 The Base Station System (BSS)
  5.2 The Switching and Management Subsystems (SMSS)
  5.3 Operation and maintenance subsystem
6 Other aspects
  6.1 Signalling
  6.2 Transmission plan
  6.3 Technical description of services and facilities
  6.4 Coding aspects and information processing
  6.5 Interworking
Annex A (informative): Document change history
History

Abstract

This standard specifies a general description of a GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN). It contains a definition and a summarised description of the elements comprised in the network, and their functions and the associated performance objectives.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Pages
ISBN
Committee	SMG 1