The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) brings together six Standards organizations from Asia, North America and Europe to publish a highly successful set of mobile standards. 3GPP has recently completed the functionality for LTE by Freezing Release 8 of the Standard, an achievement that will allow operators to realize early deployment plans.

In 2009, 3GPP Release 9 will expand the functionality of Release 8 as well as laying solid foundations for LTE-Advanced, which will be 3GPP's response to the ITU's call for 4th generation systems (IMT-Advanced).

3GPP has a web site (www.3gpp.org) which has the latest news and seventeen thousand pages tracking the current status of specifications, meetings, contribution documents, as well as latest specs and drafts free-of-charge.