GMPRS

• Evolution of GMR-1 (GeoMobile Radio Services).

• GMR-1 for circuit service (CS) is a standard published jointly by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and Telecommunications Industry Association of the USA (TIA), February, 2001.

• Commercial service has launched in 2001 through Thuraya system and satellite covering middle east and Europe.

  • Satellite was delivered by Hughes Space and Communications (HSC, now part of Boeing).
  • The ground network, equipment and user terminals (UT) were developed and delivered by Hughes Network Systems (HNS).
  • UT supports both GMR-1 and GSM (phase 2).

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