"Universal Mobile Telecommunications System" is the European standard of the IMT2000 family of third generation mobile cellular standards (3G). In addition to the telephony service, UMTS will in particular allow the provision of multimedia services (data, images, sound) at data transfer rates of 144 kbit/s (vehicles), 384 kbit/s (pedestrians) and 2 Mb/s (buildings).

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