摘要
2004年11月，3GPP标准化组织在加拿大召开了一次Workshop会议，在这次会议上，决定推动在3GPP中成立新的项目组，研究UMTS网络的长期演进问题。在2004年12月的RAN全会上，这个项目组被正式批准成立，开始进行可行性研究工作，并被命名为“RAN Long Term Evolution”，简称为RANLTE。
In November 2004, 3GPP standardization organization held a workshop in Canada. At this workshop, it decided to push estab- lishment of new project team in 3GPP, for studying long-term evolution of UMTS networks, At the RAN plenary session in December 2004, this project team was officially approved, feasibility study was kicked off, and it was named RAN Long Term Evolution, RAN LTE for short.
