From Analogue Car Telephone to Digital Pocket Phone CEPT took a very much forward looking decision when it decided to create, as early as 1982, the GSM Group with the mandate to define a second generation harmonised cellular system in Europe. At that time, the true market potential for mobile systems was not known. Also many technologies, which became key to the GSM radio design, were just emerging. This is true particularly of cellular networking, digital signal processing and real-time computin