Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); Transmission Planning Aspects of the Speech Service in the GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) System (Fourth Edition; GSM 03.50 Version 5.3.1 Release 1996)
This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) describes the transmission planning aspects pertaining to the speech service in the GSM PLMN system. Due to technical and economic factors@ there cannot be full compliance with the general characteristics of international telephone connections and circuits recommended by the ITU-T. This ETS gives guidance as to the precautions@ measures and minimum requirements needed for successful interworking of the PLMN with the national and international PSTN. The ETS identifies a number of routeing and network configurations. The objective is to reach a quality as close as possible to ITU-T standards in order to safeguard the performance seen by PSTN customers.