20 June 1985

Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Digital Cellular Radiocommunications

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A common European mobile service began with a more limited bargain. Deutsche Bundespost, the French telecommunications administration and Italy’s SIP agreed to coordinate research and preparations for compatible digital cellular networks. The agreement envisaged a CEPT standard and left the partnership open to other countries. Its signatures give a tangible form to cooperation that concealed different national priorities: France and Germany were backing industrial development, while Italy wanted a common European system. Britain joined the arrangement the following year. Read the original objectives alongside the three surviving annexes to see how technical experiments, network planning and industrial interests were brought into the same undertaking.

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