7 September 1987

GSM Memorandum of Understanding

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A technical standard needed networks, investment and services that would work across borders. The GSM Memorandum of Understanding turned that ambition into a framework of commitments among its signatories. Dated 7 September 1987, it addresses procurement, international roaming, open interfaces and the coordinated introduction of a pan-European service in 1991. This is the copy Stephen Temple’s archive records him taking away from Copenhagen after the signing. Its articles show how governments’ political support was translated into obligations for the organisations that would implement the system. The accompanying signature collection reveals the people and administrations behind those commitments.

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