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Bearer and Teleservices, as respectively defined in GSM 02.02 and GSM 02.03, are the objects which the GSM PLMNoperators offer to their customers. Besides these basic telecommunications services, features which aim at up-gradingthese basic services need also to be offered. Due to the use of radiocommunications in a PLMN, which are of a specialnature compared to classical distribution transmission techniques used in the fixed networks, such a category of featuresis related to security aspects.

In a GSM PLMN, both the users and the network operator have to be protected against undesirable intrusion of thirdparties. However, measures should be provided for in order to insure maximum protection of the rights of theindividuals concerns. As a consequence, a security feature is either a supplementary service to Tele or Bearer services,which can be selected by the subscriber, or a network function involved in the provision of one or severaltelecommunication services.

The purpose of the present document is to define the security features which are to be available in a GSM PLMN,together with the associated levels of protection. The present document is only concerned with those security featureswhich aim at the up-grading of the security in a GSM PLMN. In particular, end-to-end security is outside the scope ofthe present document.

The implementation aspects of security features are described in GSM 03.20.

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Edition: 8.1.0 Published: 06/01/2006 Number of Pages: 12 File Size: 1 file , 72 KB