A public statement has been issued by 3GPP’s Project Coordination Group (PCG), approved during their meeting on April 3rd, 2013.

The 3GPP Statement:

3GPP defines the standards for LTE, with the latest work focusing on LTE-Advanced, which includes all work from 3GPP Release 10 onwards.

3GPP recognises that in the marketplace a number of differing terms related to LTE are appearing. 3GPP reaffirms that the naming for the technology family and its evolution continues to be covered by the term LTE-Advanced, which remains the correct description for specifications currently being defined – from Release 10 onwards, including 3GPP Release 12.

The Partnership Project is working with its members and in coordination with the ITU Working Party 5D to be able to provide future guidance on how 3GPP LTE will progress in future Releases.

Statement ends.

The Project Coordination Group is the highest decision making body in 3GPP, it meets formally every six months to carry out the final adoption of 3GPP Technical Specification Group (TSG) work items, to ratify election results (table below) and the resources committed to 3GPP.

The recent meeting was the 30th PCG and was hosted by Ericsson in Kista, Sweden.

The meeting also approved the appointment of the TSG Chairmen and Vice Chairmen, following the results of the elections held during the recent Technical Specification Group Plenary meetings in Vienna.

The technical leadership for the next two years will be as follows:

Full election results are at: http://www.3gpp.org/Elections