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Official Document NG.102 - IMS Profile for Converged IP Communications

IMS Profile for Converged IP Communications

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29 May 2018

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Table of Contents
1 Introduction 4
1.1 Overview 4
1.2 Relationship to Existing Standards 5
1.2.1 3GPP Specifications 5
1.3 Scope 6
1.4 Definition of Terms 6
1.5 Document Cross-References 9
1.6 Conventions 9
2 Converged IMS UNI Requirements 9
2.1 MNO Provisioning and Late Customization 9
2.1.1 General 9
2.1.2 Configuration Methods 10
2.1.3 Configuration Parameters 10
2.2 APN Configuration and Usage 10
2.2.1 General 10
2.2.2 Single Registration via IMS well-known APN 11
2.2.3 Two Registrations via IMS well-known APN and HOS APN/non EPC
Integrated Wi-Fi 11
2.2.4 Registration(s) and Converged IP Communication Services 12
2.2A Wi-Fi access 13
2.3 P-CSCF Discovery Mechanism and Utilisation 13
2.4 IMS Identities 14
2.4.1 IMS Public User Identity (IMPU) 14
2.4.2 IMS Private User Identity (IMPI) 14
2.4.3 Addressing 14
2.5 IMS Registration 15
2.5.1 General 15
2.5.2 Single IMS Registration 16
2.5.3 Two Separate IMS Registrations 17
2.6 IMS Security 18
2.6.1 Single IMS Registration 18
2.6.2 Two Separate IMS Registrations 18
2.7 Non IMS Protocols APN Utilization and Security Mechanism 19
2.7.1 XCAP 19
2.7.2 HTTP 19
2.8 SIP Preconditions 19
2.9 Capability Exchange 19
2.10 IP Transport 20
2.11 SIP Timers 20
2.12 Multimedia Telephony Supplementary Services 20
2.13 Multi-device Support 20
2.14 Forking 20
2.14.1 Outgoing Requests 20

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2.14.2 Incoming Requests 20

2.15 The use of Signalling Compression (SIGCOMP) 21
2.16 SIP Session Establishment and Termination 21
2.17 Hosted NAT Traversal 21
2.18 Handover (LTE <-> EPC Integrated Wi-Fi) 21
2.19 Data Off and Services Availability 21
3 Common functionalities 22
3.1 Roaming Considerations 22
3.2 IP Version 22
3.3 Emergency Service 22
Annex A Legacy 3GPP Access Considerations (Normative) 23
A.1 General 23
A.2 Attachment and IMS Registration on Legacy 3GPP Access 23
A.2.1 General 23
A.2.2 IMS well-known APN 23
A.2.3 Failure to use the HOS APN and Recovery 23
A.3 Handover to/from Legacy 3GPP Access 24
A.3.1 Handover between Legacy 3GPP Access and EPC Integrated Wi-Fi 24
A.3.2 Handover between Legacy 3GPP Access and E-UTRAN 24
A.4 Media on Legacy 3GPP access 25
Annex B Document Management 26
B.1 Document History 26
Other Information 26

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1 Introduction

1.1 Overview
This Permanent Reference Document (PRD) defines a profile that identifies a minimum
mandatory set of common IMS functionalities that are defined in 3GPP specifications and
other GSMA PRDs that a wireless device (the User Equipment (UE)) and network are
required to support in order to guarantee interoperable, high quality IMS-based and Mobile
Operator provided Converged IP Communications Services (as defined in section 1.4).

The service and access specific functionality for Converged IP Communications is defined
within the following related PRDs:

 GSMA PRD IR.92 [1] - IMS Profile for Voice and SMS (over LTE).
 GSMA PRD IR.94 [2] – IMS Profile for Conversational Video Service
 GSMA PRD IR.64 [17] - IMS Service Centralization and Continuity Guidelines
 GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3] - RCS 7.0 Advanced Communications Services and Client
Specification
 GSMA PRD IR.51 [5] – IMS Profile for Voice, Video and SMS over Wi-Fi.

This document defines normative requirements for the UE and the network to support
Converged IP Communication Services.

The following network deployments are supported:

 a converged IMS core network (i.e. supporting all Converged IP Communications

Services), or
 two separate IMS core networks (i.e. one IMS core network supporting Multimedia
Telephony and SMSoIP and another IMS core network supporting all other RCS
services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP).

Note 1: In the two separate IMS core networks scenario each core network contains
its own HSS.

The network deployments described above require that the UE supports:

 a single IMS registration to a single IMS core network; and

 two separate IMS registrations, either to a single IMS core network or to two separate
IMS core networks.
Table 1 provides an overview of all allowed and prohibited combinations for single
registration and dual registrations.

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Single IMS Core Network Two separate IMS Core Networks

(supporting Multimedia (one for Multimedia Telephony and
Telephony, SMSoIP and SMSoIP, one for RCS services
other RCS Services) excluding both Multimedia
Telephony and SMSoIP)
UE performs single
Allowed Prohibited (see Note)
IMS Registration
UE performs two
Allowed Allowed
IMS Registrations

Table 1 IMS Registration / IMS Core Combinations

Note 2: In the prohibited case in Table 1, the UE must perform two separate IMS
registrations, otherwise only either Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP will
be registered by the UE and available to the user, or, only the RCS services
will be registered by the UE and available to the user excluding Multimedia
Telephony and SMSoIP.

All of the different combinations for UE implementation and network deployment are able to
provide a solution for Converged IP Communication Services. The UE implementations must
support both single and two separate registrations, whereas networks can choose which
approach to use. A single IMS registration on the UE to a single IMS core network provides
the most efficient and optimised solution and has a number of benefits:

 single IMS Registration to be maintained,

 Security Association based on USIM or ISIM credentials for all access types,
 single APN to better manage radio and network resources,
 optimised traffic load management, more efficient memory usage, increased battery
lifetime on the UE,
 common Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) without the need for discrimination when
selecting the NNI,
 reduced OPEX/CAPEX associated with managing two core networks,
 more efficient subscriber data management,
 easier capability to combine Converged IP Communication Services together and
with future IMS-based services.

1.2 Relationship to Existing Standards

1.2.1 3GPP Specifications

This profile is based on the open and published 3GPP specifications as listed in section 1.5.
If the referenced GSMA PRDs have a basis, e.g. 3GPP Release 8, or reference a particular
3GPP release, then this is taken as a basis for the referenced parts. It should be noted,
however that not all the features mandatory in the respective base 3GPP Release are
required for compliance with this profile.

When reference is made to a particular 3GPP specification in the following sections, then
either the 3GPP release is explicitly mentioned or 3GPP Rel-8 is assumed.

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Unless otherwise stated, the latest version of the referenced specifications for the relevant
3GPP release applies.

1.3 Scope
This document defines a profile for the common IMS functionality to enable Converged IP
Communications Services; it profiles UE and IMS core network capabilities that are
considered essential to launch interoperable, high quality IMS-based and Mobile Operator
provided Converged IP Communications Services. The defined profile is compliant with
3GPP specifications (see section 1.2 for more information). The scope of this profile is the
interface between UE and network (also known as the User-Network Interface (UNI)).

In the context of this PRD, the UE is a wireless device containing a USIM (and optionally
also an ISIM) on a UICC. The Mobile Operator providing the Converged IP Communication
Services is the HPMN as identified via the Mobile Country Code (MCC) and Mobile Network
Code (MNC) portions of the IMSI on the USIM.

UEs accessing IMS via GERAN, UTRAN, E-UTRAN and EPC integrated Wi-Fi are
considered within the scope of this document. UE access to IMS via other accesses
(including non EPC integrated Wi-Fi) for Multimedia telephony and SMS is considered out of
scope; such UE access to IMS can be used for RCS services excluding Multimedia
telephony and SMS.

This document does not limit anybody, by any means, to deploy other standardized features
or optional features, in addition to the defined profile.

1.4 Definition of Terms

Term Description
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
APN Access Point Name
BSF Bootstrapping Security Function
B-TID Bootstrapping Transaction Identifier
CAPEX CAPital EXpense
Converged IP Multimedia Telephony, SMSoIP and other RCS Services.
Communications
Services
CS Circuit Switched
EDGE Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution
EPC Evolved Packet Core
EPC-integrated A Wi-Fi access as defined in GSMA PRD IR.51 [5].
Wi-Fi
E-UTRAN Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
GAA Generic Authentication Architecture
GBR Guaranteed Bit Rate
GERAN GSM EDGE Terrestrial Radio Access Network
GPRS General Packet Relay Service

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Term Description
GRUU Globally Routable User Agent URI
GSM Global System for Mobile communication
HOS Home Operator Services
HPMN Home Public Mobile Network
HSS Home Subscriber Server
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IARI IMS Application Reference Identifier
IARP Inter APN Routing Policy
ICSI IMS Communication Service Identifier
IM IP Multimedia
IMAP Internet Mail Access Protocol
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMPI IP Multimedia Private User Identity
IMPU IP Multimedia Public User Identity
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMS-AKA IMS Authentication and Key Agreement
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IP Internet Protocol
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
ISIM IM Services Identity Module
Legacy 3GPP GERAN or UTRAN
Access
LTE Long Term Evolution
MCC Mobile Country Code
MNC Mobile Network Code
MNO Mobile Network Operator
MO Management Object
MSISDN Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number
MSRP Message Sending Relay Protocol
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
Multimedia Voice/Conversational Video
Telephony
NAT Network Address Translation
NNI Network-Network Interface
Non EPC Wi-Fi access as described in GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3] i.e. the UE connects over
integrated Wi-Fi Wi-Fi access directly to the configured P-CSCF by selecting the transport to be
used based on the transport parameters defined in GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4].
OPEX OPerating EXpense

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Term Description
P-CSCF Proxy - Call Session Control Function
PDN Packet Data Network
PDP Packet Data Protocol
PRD Permanent Reference Document
PS Packet Switched
QCI Quality of Service (QoS) Class Identifier
RAT Radio Access Technology
RCS Rich Communication Services
RFC Request For Comments
SDP Session Description Protocol
SIGCOMP SIGnalling COMPression
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIMPLE Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging
Extensions
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SMS Short Messaging Service
SMSoIP SMS over IP
SRVCC Single Radio Voice Call Continuity
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
UICC Universal Integrated Circuit Card
UMTS Universal Telecommunications Mobile System
UNI User-Network Interface
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URN Uniform Resource Name
USIM Universal Subscriber Identity Module
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
UUID Universal Unique Identifier
VoIP Voice Over IP
VoLTE Voice over LTE
VPMN Visited Public Mobile Network
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
XCAP XML Configuration Access Protocol
XML eXtensible Markup Language

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1.5 Document Cross-References

Ref Doc Number Title
GSMA PRD IR.92 IMS Profile for Voice and SMS
GSMA PRD IR.94 IMS Profile for Conversational Video Service
GSMA PRD
RCS 7.0 Advanced Communications Services and Client Specification
RCC.07
GSMA PRD
IMS Device Configuration and Supporting Services
RCC.15
GSMA PRD IR.51 IMS Profile for Voice, Video and SMS over untrusted Wi-Fi access
IETF RFC 2119 Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
3GPP TS 23.003 Numbering, addressing and identification
3GPP TS 24.229 IP multimedia call control protocol based on Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) and Session Description Protocol (SDP); Stage 3
3GPP TS 24.623 Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol
(XCAP) over the Ut interface for Manipulating Supplementary Services
3GPP TS 31.103 Characteristics of the IP Multimedia Services Identity Module (ISIM)
application
IETF RFC 3261 SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
GSMA PRD IR.65 IMS Roaming and Interworking Guidelines
GSMA PRD IR.88 LTE Roaming Guidelines
GSMA PRD IR.61 Wi-Fi Roaming Guidelines
3GPP TS 23.402 Architecture Enhancements for non-3GPP accesses
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancement for Evolved
3GPP TS 23.401
Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access
GSMA PRD IR.64 IMS Service Centralization and Continuity Guidelines
XDM 2.0_Core XML Document Management (XDM) Specification, Candidate Version
2.0, 16 September 2008
GSMA PRD Technical Adaptation of Devices through Late Customisation
TS.32

1.6 Conventions
The key words “must”, “must not”, “required”, “shall”, “shall not”, “should”, “should not”,
“recommended”, “may”, and “optional” in this document are to be interpreted as described in
IETF RFC 2119 [6].

2 Converged IMS UNI Requirements

2.1 MNO Provisioning and Late Customization

2.1.1 General
This section describes the capabilities to support MNO provisioning and late customization
as defined in Annex C in GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

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2.1.2 Configuration Methods

The UE and the network must support remote client configuration as per GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3] with the additions as specified in Annex C.2 in GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

2.1.3 Configuration Parameters

Table 2 contains the configuration parameters with their default values that must be
supported by the UE and the network, in addition to those defined in GSMA PRD IR.92 [1],
IR.94 [2], IR.51 [5] and RCC.07 [3]. The UE must use the default value for each parameter
unless configured differently by any of the methods as described in section 2.1.2.

Note: The parameters in Table 2 are a subset of parameters in section 3.8 of

GSMA PRD TS.32 [19].

Parameter Default value Defined in See also

clause
RCS VOLTE SINGLE 1 (single RCC.07 [3] 2.2.1
REGISTRATION registration)
NO MSRP SUPPORT No default RCC.07 [3] 2.2.1

Table 2 Configuration parameters and their default values.

2.2 APN Configuration and Usage

2.2.1 General
The number of required APNs for SIP signalling and related media is dependent on whether:

 all Converged IP Communications Services sharing one IMS registration.

 Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP using one IMS registration and RCS services
(excluding Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP) using another IMS registration.

This is summarised in Table 3 below. For details regarding the IMS well-known APN, the
HOS APN, and their use see GSMA PRD IR.92 [1] and GSMA PRD IR.88 [13]. For details
regarding PDN connection establishment to the IMS well-known APN, see section 4.3.1 of
GSMA PRD IR.92 [1] and section 4.5 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5].

The configuration of the APNs to be used for the RCS services described in the above cases
depend on the RCS VOLTE SINGLE REGISTRATION parameter and NO MSRP SUPPORT
parameter as defined in annexes A.1.6.2 and A.1.10 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3]. Table 3
illustrates the usage of these parameters for a UE.

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RCS VOLTE SINGLE UE NO MSRP UE behaviour

REGISTRATION roaming SUPPORT
(see GSMA PRD outside of (see GSMA
RCC.07 [3]) HPMN? PRD
RCC.07 [3])
0 Not relevant Not Two registrations as described in
applicable section 2.2.3.
1 No Not Single registration as described in
Applicable section 2.2.2.
UE is Two registrations as described in
roaming in a section 2.2.3.
network that
is listed
Yes
UE is Single registration as described in
roaming in a section 2.2.2.
network that
is not listed
2 No Not Single registration as described in
applicable section 2.2.2.
Yes Not Two registrations as described in
applicable section 2.2.3.

Table 3 Summary of parameters controlling APN Usage for SIP signalling and related
media for IP Communication Services

2.2.2 Single Registration via IMS well-known APN

The UE determines that one APN is used as described in section 2.2.1.

The UE must use the IMS well-known APN for SIP signalling and media as described in
section 2.2.1.

If the UE receives a PDN Connectivity Reject, then section 4.3.1 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1]
applies;

2.2.3 Two Registrations via IMS well-known APN and HOS APN/non EPC
Integrated Wi-Fi
The UE determines that two APNs are used (as specified in section 2.2.1).

For Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP services, the IMS well-known APN must always be
used (see section 2.2.4).

For RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP, the HOS APN or non
EPC integrated Wi-Fi is used as shown in Table 4.

If the UE receives a PDN Connectivity Reject, then:

 For the IMS well-known APN, section 4.3.1 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1] applies;
 For the HOS APN, if each of
 the use of non-EPC-integrated Wi-Fi is not possible, and

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 the UE is not able to establish a PDN connection to the HOS APN, and
 the HOS APN is not the same as the Internet APN,

then the UE must use a PDN Connection to the Internet APN and perform the P-CSCF
discovery mechanism as defined in section 2.3. In this case, if the UE successfully
establishes a PDN connection to the Internet APN, the UE must apply the registration
procedure for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP as defined in
sections 2.5 and 2.6 over the Internet APN.

2.2.4 Registration(s) and Converged IP Communication Services

The UE provides Converged IP Communication Services via:

 a single registration for all Converged IP Communications Services if, according to

Table 3, only the IMS well-known APN is used for registration, or
 two separate registrations: a registration for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP on
the IMS well-known APN and in addition a registration for RCS services excluding
both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP on the HOS APN if according to Table 3
both the IMS APN and the HOS APN are used for registration with the following
additional clarification: the HOS APN is used for RCS services excluding both
Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP when using cellular access only; when using Wi-
Fi access, RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP are using
non EPC integrated Wi-Fi (see also section 2.2A).

The UE must register the Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP services on the IMS well-
known APN and other RCS services either on the IMS well-known APN, the HOS APN or on
non EPC integrated Wi-Fi as described in Table 4.

Functionality supported by APN/Non EPC integrated Wi-Fi to be used for

UE registration for a given functionality
Single Registration Two Separate Registrations
as per Table 3 as per Table 3
IR.92 / IR.51 voice IMS well-known APN IMS well-known APN
IR.92 / IR.51 SMSoIP (*) IMS well-known APN IMS well-known APN
IR.94/IR.51 conversational video IMS well-known APN IMS well-known APN
(**)
RCS Chat (**) IMS well-known APN HOS APN/Non EPC integrated
(***) Wi-Fi (***)
RCS IP voice call Not registered. Not registered.
RCS IP video call Not registered Not registered.

Other RCS Services (**) IMS well-known APN HOS APN/Non EPC integrated
(***) Wi-Fi (***)

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Table 4 Service Registrations on IMS well-known APN and HOS APN/non EPC
Integrated Wi-Fi

For items marked with "*" in Table 4, the UE shall register this service only if the service is
activated in the UE by configuration, as described in Annex A.7 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

For items marked with "**" in Table 4, the UE shall register this service only if the service is
activated in the UE by configuration, as described in section 2.1.

For items marked with "***" in Table 4, see also section 2.2.2, Annex A.2 and Annex A.3.

2.2A Wi-Fi access

The UE shall connect over Wi-Fi access as follows:

 Single Registration (i.e. one registration for all Converged IP Communications

Services): Switch-over to/from EPC integrated Wi-Fi as described in GSMA PRD
IR.51 [5]
 Two Registrations (i.e. a separate registration for Multimedia Telephony/SMSoIP and
RCS services excluding Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP)
 Registration for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP: Switch-over to/from EPC
integrated Wi-Fi as described in GSMA PRD IR.51 [5]
 Registration for RCS- services excluding Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP:
Switch-over to/from non EPC integrated Wi-Fi as described in GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3]

2.3 P-CSCF Discovery Mechanism and Utilisation

A UE must support the capability to connect to a single P-CSCF for the single registration
case and the capability to connect to two P-CSCFs for the two registrations case. The UE
must discover the P-CSCF prior to initial registration as follows:

 for a registration comprising functionality using the IMS well-known APN as defined in
Table 3, the UE must support the P-CSCF discovery mechanism
 over E-UTRAN, as described in section 4.4 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1];
 over EPC integrated Wi-Fi, as described in section 6.9 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5];
and
 over GERAN and UTRAN, as defined as option II in 3GPP TS 24.229 Annex
B.2.2.2 [8].
 for a registration comprising functionality using the HOS APN as defined in Table 3, a
UE must support the P-CSCF discovery mechanism via the RCS client configuration
mechanism (IMS management object as described in section 2.4.5 of GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3] using the procedure for devices not enabled for VoLTE or VoWiFi).
 for a registration comprising functionality using Non EPC integrated Wi-Fi as defined
in Table 3, the UE must support the P-CSCF discovery mechanism via the RCS client
configuration mechanism (IMS management object as described in section 2.4.6 of
GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3] sing the procedure for devices not enabled for VoLTE or
VoWiFi).

The provisioning of P-CSCF address(es) is defined by the Home and/or Visited Mobile
Operator(s) dependent on configuration of the IMS core network(s).

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2.4 IMS Identities

2.4.1 IMS Public User Identity (IMPU)

2.4.1.1 General
The UE and IMS core network must support IMS Public User Identities (IMPUs) as specified
in section 13.4 of 3GPP TS 23.003 [7]. For IMS registrations, the UE and IMS core network
must support the IMPUs defined in the following sub-sections.

2.4.1.2 UICC obtained/derived IMPU

If an ISIM application is present on the UICC, the IMPU in the first (or only) record in the
EFIMPU Elementary File in the ISIM (see section 4.2.4 of 3GPP TS 31.103 [10]) must be
used.

If the UICC does not contain a ISIM application, then a temporary IMPU derived from the
USIM's IMSI as per section 13.4B of 3GPP TS 23.003 [7] must be used.

2.4.1.3 IMS Management Object obtained IMPU

The IMPU obtained from the configuration parameter Public_user_identity_List of the IMS
Management Object as defined in section 2.2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] must be used.

2.4.2 IMS Private User Identity (IMPI)

2.4.2.1 General
The UE and IMS core network must support IMPIs in the format defined in section 13.3 of
3GPP TS 23.003 [7]. The UE and IMS core network must support the IMPIs defined in the
following sub-sections.

2.4.2.2 UICC obtained/derived IMPI

If an ISIM application is present on the UICC, the IMPI in the EFIMPI Elementary File in the
ISIM (see section 4.2.2 of 3GPP TS 31.103 [10]) must be used.

If the UICC does not contain an ISIM application, then an IMPI derived from the USIM's IMSI
as per section 13.3 of 3GPP TS 23.003 [7] must be used.

2.4.2.3 IMS Management Object (MO) obtained IMPI

The IMPI obtained from the IMS Management Object as defined in section 2.2 of GSMA
PRD RCC.15 [4] must be used.

2.4.3 Addressing
The support in the UE and network of E.164 numbers, home-local numbers and geo-local
numbers for Multimedia Telephony must be as defined in section 2.2.3 of
GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

The support in the UE and network of E.164 numbers and home-local numbers for RCS
services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP must be as defined in section
2.5 of RCC.07 [3]. The support in the UE and the network of geo-local numbers for RCS in-

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call SIP requests must be as defined in section 2.5.3.2 of RCC.07 [3], except for the actual
format of the geo-local phone-contact parameter which shall be as shown in section 2.2.3 of
GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

The support in the UE and network of the P-Called-Party-ID header field must be as defined
in section 2.2.3 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

2.5 IMS Registration

2.5.1 General
The UE and IMS core network must support the SIP registration procedures as follows (see
Table 4).

For registration for Converged IP Communication Services for the single registrations case:

 For voice and SMSoIP over LTE a UE must support the SIP registration procedures
as defined in section 2.2.1 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].
 For conversational video services, a UE must support the SIP registration procedures
as defined in section 2.2.1 of GSMA PRD IR.94 [2].
 For Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP over EPC integrated Wi-Fi, a UE must
support the SIP registration procedures as defined in section 4.2.1 of GSMA PRD
IR.51 [5].
 The procedures for registration of the relevant services feature tags for RCS services
excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP in section 2.4 of GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3].

For registration for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP for the two registrations case:

 For voice and SMSoIP over LTE a UE must support the SIP registration procedures
as defined in section 2.2.1 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].
 For conversational video services, a UE must support the SIP registration procedures
as defined in section 2.2.1 of GSMA PRD IR.94 [2].
 For Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP over EPC integrated Wi-Fi, a UE must
support the SIP registration procedures as defined in section 4.2.1 of GSMA PRD
IR.51 [5].

For registration for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP for the
two registrations case:

 The UE must support the SIP registration procedures as defined in section 2.4 of
GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

Further requirements and clarifications are specified below.

The UE must be able to support all of the following registration options:

 A single IMS registration to a single converged IMS core,

 Two separate IMS registrations to a single converged IMS core, and
 Two separate registrations to two separate IMS cores.

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In the two separate registrations case, the HPMN should ensure that the same IMS Public
User Identities are registered as result of both registration procedures for user addressing
consistency reasons.

The UE must subscribe to the registration event package as defined in section 5.1.1.3 of
3GPP TS 24.229 [8] for each registration.

On user initiated de-registration, the UE must de-register only the particular contact address
being registered in an individual registration, as defined in section 5.1.1.6 of 3GPP TS
24.229 [8].

UE and IMS core network must support network-initiated de-registration as defined in

section 5.1.1.7 of 3GPP TS 24.229 [8].

On being de-registered by the network, the UE must behave as specified in section 5.1.1.7
of 3GPP TS 24.229 [8].

Note: For the two registrations case, the subscription to registration event package
as well as network initiated de-registration is not described in the current
version of this document.

2.5.2 Single IMS Registration

For a single registration to a converged IMS core network, the UE must include:

 the IMS Public User Identity (as specified in section 2.4.1.2),

 the IMS Private User Identity (as specified in section 2.4.2.2),
 the "+sip.instance" header field parameter (Instance ID) of the Contact address. The
parameter must be encoded as the IMEI URN is specified in section 2.2.1 of GSMA
PRD IR.92 [1].
 the ICSIs and/or IARIs and/or feature tags referenced in GSMA PRDs IR.92 [1], IR.94
[2] and RCC.07 [3] for the services supported by the UE on that registration (see
Table 4).

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2.5.3 Two Separate IMS Registrations

For each individual registration, the UE must include:

 the IMS Public User Identity as follows:

 For the registration for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP as specified in section
2.4.1.2,
 For registration for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and
SMSoIP as follows: -
 if the client configuration parameter "IMS Mode Authentication Type" defined
in section 2.2.1.2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] is set to "SIP DIGEST", then as
specified in section 2.4.1.3.
 if the client configuration parameter "IMS Mode Authentication Type" defined
in section 2.2.1.2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] is set to "IMS Authentication and
Key Agreement (AKA)", then as specified in section 2.4.1.2.
 the IMS Private User Identity, as follows:
 for registration for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP, as specified in section
2.4.2.2.
 for registration for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and
SMSoIP, as follows: -
 if the client configuration parameter "IMS Mode Authentication Type" defined
in section 2.2.1.2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] is set to "SIP DIGEST", then as
specified in section 2.4.2.3.
 if the client configuration parameter "IMS Mode Authentication Type" defined
in section 2.2.1.2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] is set to "IMS Authentication and
Key Agreement (AKA)", then as specified in section 2.4.2.2.

Note 1: In order to prevent a subsequent registration by a UE over-writing a previous

registration in the IMS core network, the HPMN needs to ensure that the
IMS Private User Identities used in the two registrations are different.
However, the UE does not need to ensure that the IMS Private User
Identities are different

 the "+sip.instance" header field parameter (Instance ID) of the Contact address, as
follows:
 for registration for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP, the parameter must be
encoded as the IMEI URN as specified in section 2.2.1 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].
 for registration for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and
SMSoIP, the parameter must be encoded as the UUID (Universal Unique
Identifier) based on the rule defined in section 2.4.2 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

Note 2: If the same IMS Public User Identity is registered in one IMS core network
for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP, and another IMS core network for
RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP (see
section 2.5.1), the procedures to select the correct IMS core network to
forward a SIP request received over an NNI to the UE are out of scope of
this document.

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 the defined ICSIs and/or IARIs and/or feature tags for the services supported by the
UE as defined in GSMA PRDs IR.92 [1], IR.94 [2] and RCC.07 [3].

If there is a trigger for an initial registration, re-registration or de-registration and if there is a

REGISTER request in progress for another registration, then the UE must only initiate a new
REGISTER request when

 it has received a final response for the other REGISTER request, or

 there has been an interruption, due to failure and reconnect, of the underlying
signalling transport mechanism used for the other REGISTER request, or
 the other REGISTER request has timed out.

If there is no other REGISTER request in progress the UE shall send the REGISTER
request when the trigger occurs.

2.6 IMS Security

2.6.1 Single IMS Registration

When a single IMS registration is used for Converged IP Communication Services, the UE
and the network must follow the procedures for IMS Authentication and Key Agreement
(IMS-AKA), Sec-Agree and IPSec as described in section 2.2.2 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

2.6.2 Two Separate IMS Registrations

When two separate IMS registrations are used for Converged IP Communication Services,
each individual IMS registration registers the same IMS Public User Identity and includes
authorisation and authentication procedures to establish the security relationship between
the IMS User Agent and the core network.

The UE and network must follow the security procedures for the registration for Multimedia
Telephony and SMSoIP as follows:

 as described in section 2.2.2 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1] for registration for Multimedia
Telephony and SMSoIP over E-UTRAN; or
 as described in section 4.4 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5] for registration for Multimedia
Telephony and SMSoIP services over EPC integrated Wi-Fi.

The UE and network must follow the security procedures for the registration for RCS
services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP as follows:

 If the client configuration parameter "IMS Mode Authentication Type" defined in Table
2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] is set to "SIP DIGEST" then the UE must follow
procedures for SIP Digest Authentication as specified in section 2.12.1 of GSMA
PRD RCC.07 [3] The digest credentials are retrieved by the UE via remote client
configuration as described in section 2.12.1 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3]; or

 If the client configuration parameter "IMS Mode Authentication Type" defined in Table

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2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] is set to "IMS Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA)"
then the UE must follow procedures for IMS-AKA as specified in section 2.12.1.1.1 of
GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

Note: Since only a single security association can be set up to a converged IMS
core using the procedures of IMS-AKA, the case of "IMS Authentication and
Key Agreement (AKA)" is only applicable to the two separate IMS core
networks scenario. The HPMN needs to take this into account when setting
the value of the configuration parameter "IMS Mode Authentication Type".

2.7 Non IMS Protocols APN Utilization and Security Mechanism

2.7.1 XCAP
For Multimedia Telephony services, the XCAP based Ut interface (see 3GPP TS 24.623 [9])
is used for configuration of Supplementary Services as described in section 2.3.2 of GSMA
PRD IR.92 [1] and section 4.6 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5]. This interface uses in cellular access
the HOS APN as defined in section 6.3 of GSMA PRD IR.88 [13] and in Wi-Fi either the
HOS APN or a different APN as defined in section 4.6 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5] and enables
XCAP messages to be exchanged with the home IMS network for service configuration.

2.7.2 HTTP
HTTP is used in RCS for accessing the auto configuration server, the content servers for File
Transfer, the Common Message Store, the Chatbot Directory, Spam black-list and Chatbot
Information functions (see section 2.7 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3]). The UE must use the
HOS APN (as defined in section 6.3 of GSMA PRD IR.88 [13]) for HTTP as utilised for RCS
services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP on cellular access. On Wi-Fi
access, non EPC integrated Wi-Fi is used for HTTP.

Note: RCC.07 [3] could include support for EPC integrated Wi-Fi in a future update
in which case the HOS APN could be used for HTTP on Wi-Fi access as
well.

2.8 SIP Preconditions

The UE must support and use SIP Preconditions as described in section 2.4.1 of GSMA
PRD IR.92 [1] and section 2.4.1 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5] for voice and conversational video
sessions.

Additionally, for the single registration case, the UE must support SIP Preconditions for IR.74
video share sessions.

For RCS services using MSRP, the UE must not use SIP Preconditions.

2.9 Capability Exchange

The UE must support the Capability Exchange described in section 2.6 of GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3] to advertise/negotiate support of conversational video and RCS services.

The configuration of the default mechanism is defined by the configuration parameter

CAPABILITY DISCOVERY MECHANISM as defined in annex A.1.9 of GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3].

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In the two registration case, the capability exchange shall take place over the HOS APN for
all IP Communication services reachable via the same IMPU.

2.10 IP Transport
As stated in IETF RFC 3261 [11], clients must support SIP over both UDP and TCP. The UE
must support the configuration parameters PSSignalling, PSSignallingRoaming or
WiFiSignalling as defined in section 2.2.1.2 of GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4] to determine the
transport.

In order to avoid SIP message fragmentation due to MTU issues, the UE and the network
must comply with 3GPP TS 24.229 [8] subclause 4.2A. As stated in IETF RFC 3261 [11], the
transport must be selected on a per SIP message basis and not on a per SIP session basis.

2.11 SIP Timers

The UE and the network must support the SIP timers as defined in sections 7.7 and 7.8 of
3GPP TS 24.229 [8]. The UE must also support modification of the SIP timers via the IMS
MO as defined in GSMA PRD RCC.15 [4].

It is recommended for Mobile Operators to use the values standardised in sections 7.7 and
7.8 of 3GPP TS 24.229 [8].

2.12 Multimedia Telephony Supplementary Services

The UE must support the supplementary services as described in section 2.3 of GSMA PRD
IR.92 [1]. If the UE supports conversational video services as defined in GSMA PRD IR.94
[2], then the UE must support the supplementary services as described in section 2.3 of
GSMA PRD IR.94 [2].

2.13 Multi-device Support

A user’s subscription may include multi-device support (i.e. a Converged IP Communications
Services UE and one or more secondary devices supporting RCS services excluding both
Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP as defined in GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3]). Secondary
device(s) may also perform an IMS registration (as described in section 2.4.2 of GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3]) over any allowed access technology (as described in section 2.8 of GSMA PRD
RCC.07 [3]). By definition, the secondary device(s) must not be a Converged IP
Communications Services UE.

Note: Multi SIM devices/services are out of scope of this document.

2.14 Forking

2.14.1 Outgoing Requests

The UE must be able to receive responses due to a forked request as described in section
2.2.5 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1].

2.14.2 Incoming Requests

In the case of multi-device support (see section 2.13), an incoming request to a registered
public user identity must be forked to the multiple registered devices and handled as
described in section 2.-10 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

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2.15 The use of Signalling Compression (SIGCOMP)

The UE must not use SIGCOMP.

2.16 SIP Session Establishment and Termination

UE and IMS core network must follow 3GPP TS 24.229 [8] for establishment and termination
of a session.

UE and IMS core network must support reliable provisional responses.

For the purpose of indicating a Converged IP Communications Service to the network, the
UE must use an ICSI value and/or IARI value and/or feature tag in accordance with section
5.7.1.9 of 3GPP TS 24.229 [8]. The related ICSIs, IARIs and feature tags are specified in the
related service level PRDs (see section 1.1).

When generating an outgoing non-REGISTER request, the UE may populate the P-

Preferred-Identity header field in accordance with section 2.5.3.3 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

If the UE receives an incoming SIP request for a service that is not supported over the used
IMS registration, the UE must reject that request with a 488 “Not Acceptable Here” error
response.

Note: This may occur in the case of two IMS registrations using a converged IMS
core network when the network does not exclusively target the client(s) that
have registered with the corresponding ICSI/feature tag for the service (i.e.
no “explicit” and “require” parameters in the Accept-Contact header field)
and the original targeted client(s) rejects or does not answer the SIP
request.

2.17 Hosted NAT Traversal

The UE and network must support hosted NAT traversal as described in section 2.7 of
GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

2.18 Handover (LTE <-> EPC Integrated Wi-Fi)

The UE must support seamless handover between LTE and EPC integrated Wi-Fi as
described in section 6.8 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5]. The network may fulfil the requirements for
mobility management as specified in section 6.2 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5].

Note: Only the PDN connection to the IMS APN can be subject to seamless
handover between LTE and EPC integrated Wi-Fi. The PDN connection to
the HOS APN can only be subject to seamless handover if currently used for
XCAP/Ut and if the APN used for XCAP/Ut on Wi-Fi is not changed due to
configuration (as described in section 2.7.1).

2.19 Data Off and Services Availability

The UE must support Data Off and service availability as defined in section 5.5 of GSMA
PRD IR.92 [1] and in sections 2.8.1.5 and 2.8.1.6 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

Note: Data Off is defined only for PDN connections via a 3GPP access.

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3 Common functionalities

3.1 Roaming Considerations

This profile has been designed to support IMS roaming as per GSMA PRDs IR.65 [12], IR.88
[13] and IR.61 [14]. Other roaming models are out of the scope of this profile.

3.2 IP Version
The UE and the network must support both IPv4 and IPv6 as described in section 5.1 of
GSMA PRD IR.92 [1] and section 7.1 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5] for all protocols that are used
for the Converged IP Services.

3.3 Emergency Service

The UE and the network must support Emergency Service as specified in section 5.2 of
GSMA PRD IR.92 [1] and section 7.3 of GSMA PRD IR.51 [5].

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Annex A Legacy 3GPP Access Considerations (Normative)

A.1 General
In most markets, there will not be ubiquitous LTE coverage for some time and thus
consideration also needs to be given to any implications arising from Legacy 3GPP Access
(GERAN or UTRAN) in terms of APN usage and mapping of bearers between Legacy 3GPP
Access and LTE/EPC integrated Wi-Fi.

When under Legacy 3GPP Access coverage, the UE must use: -

 for voice services, the CS radio access,

 for SMS, the access technology configured as described in Annex C of GSMA PRD
IR.92 [1], and
 for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP, the access
technology as defined in section 2.4.2 and 2.8 of GSMA PRD RCC.07 [3].

A.2 Attachment and IMS Registration on Legacy 3GPP Access

A.2.1 General
For RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP, the UE must perform
a network attachment using the IMS well-known APN or the HOS APN – as indicated in
section 2.2. The UE must then register for RCS services by omitting the ICSI, IARI and
feature tags for Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP in the IMS registration using the
procedure described in section 2.5.

Note: If the PDN connection for the IMS well-known APN is established via Legacy
3GPP Access, then the SGSN in the VPMN may select a PGW in the HPMN
even if the HPMN allows selecting a PGW in the VPMN. The PGW in the
HPMN would be used also after performing handover to E-UTRAN, see
section A.3.2.

To use voice services and SMS in Legacy 3GPP Access, the UE must perform a CS-attach.
See also section 2 of GSMA PRD IR.64 [17].

A.2.2 IMS well-known APN

If the IMS well-known APN is used for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony
and SMSoIP on Legacy 3GPP Access, and the radio access technology changes from
Legacy 3GPP Access to E-UTRAN or EPC integrated Wi-Fi, then the UE must re-register as
per section 2.5.2 to add the ICSI, IARI and feature tags required for Multimedia Telephony
and, if required, also for SMSoIP.

If the radio access technology changes from E-UTRAN or EPC integrated Wi-Fi to Legacy
3GPP Access, then the UE must re-register to remove, if required, the feature tag required
for SMSoIP (see also Annex A.7 of GSMA PRD IR.92 [1]).

A.2.3 Failure to use the HOS APN and Recovery

If the HOS APN is not the same as the Internet APN, and if

 the establishment of a PDN connection to the HOS APN fails in Legacy 3GPP access

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or
 the PDN connection to the HOS APN is lost on change to Legacy 3GPP access, then
the UE must use a PDN Connection to the Internet APN and perform the P-CSCF
discovery mechanism as defined in section 2.3. The UE must apply the registration
procedure for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP as
defined in sections 2.5 and 2.6 over the Internet APN.

A.3 Handover to/from Legacy 3GPP Access

A.3.1 Handover between Legacy 3GPP Access and EPC Integrated Wi-Fi
A UE when handing over between Legacy 3GPP Access and EPC integrated Wi-Fi, must
support the following:

 when moving into EPC-integrated Wi-Fi coverage:

 leave voice call on CS network and the PDN Connection to the IMS well-known
APN in GERAN/UTRAN until the voice call is terminated.
 if performing handover packet bearers from GERAN/UTRAN to integrated Wi-Fi,
proceed as described in sections 8.6.2 and 16.10.2 of 3GPP TS 23.402 [15] in
conjunction with section 5.5.2.2, section 5.5.2.4 and annex D.3.4 of 3GPP TS
23.401 [16].
 If HOS APN is used and the HOS APN is not the same as the Internet APN and if
the PDN connection to the HOS APN is lost on changing to Wi-Fi access, then the
UE must use Wi-Fi Internet access and perform the P-CSCF discovery
mechanism as defined in section 2.3 for registrations. The UE must apply the
registration procedure for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and
SMSoIP as defined in sections 2.5 and 2.6 over the Wi-Fi Internet access.
 when moving out of EPC-integrated Wi-Fi coverage:
 for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP on the IMS
well-known APN, handover the packet bearers between EPC integrated Wi-Fi and
GERAN/UTRAN as described in sections 8.2.1.3 (S2a) and 8.6.1.2 (S2b) of 3GPP
TS 23.402 [15] and Annex A.2.3.

A.3.2 Handover between Legacy 3GPP Access and E-UTRAN

A UE when handing over between Legacy 3GPP Access and E-UTRAN, must support the
following:

 when moving into E-UTRAN:

 handover packet bearers between 2G/3G and E-UTRAN (as described in section
5.5.2.2, section 5.5.2.4 and annex D.3.4 of 3GPP TS 23.401 [16]).
 when moving out of E-UTRAN:
 for voice services, perform SRVCC as described in section A.3 of GSMA PRD
IR.92 [1]
 for RCS services excluding both Multimedia Telephony and SMSoIP, handover
the packet bearers between E-UTRAN and 2G/3G as described in section 5.5.2.1,
section 5.5.2.3 and annex D.3.3 of 3GPP TS 23.401 [16]

Note 1: Only the default bearer of each PDN connection can be maintained on
GERAN/UTRAN in deployments not supporting secondary PDP contexts.

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GBR bearers will be released during SRVCC procedure and all non GBR
bearers other than the default bearer will be released during handover of the
packet bearers between E-UTRAN and GERAN/UTRAN and hence all
sessions associated with these released non GBR bearers will break. When
moving from GERAN/UTRAN to E-UTRAN, traffic carried on the signalling
bearer on GERAN/UTRAN would then be on the QCI=5 bearer on E-
UTRAN.

Note 2: There is limited support for parallel PS radio access bearers in legacy 3GPP
deployments. Typical limits are 3 PS bearers plus 1 CS bearer although
there are some networks that support only 1 PS bearer plus 1 CS bearer. All
PS bearers exceeding these limits will be released during handover of the
packet bearers between E-UTRAN and GERAN/UTRAN and all sessions
associated with these released non GBR bearers will break.

A.4 Media on Legacy 3GPP access

Even if a dedicated bearer for the media does not exist (i.e. no secondary PDP context), the
UE must consider itself as having local resources and can send and receive media. See also
section B.2.2.5.1B in 3GPP TS 24.229 [8].

Note: Considering itself as having local resources does not by itself grant the UE
authority to send media. Other conditions need to be fulfilled.

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Annex B Document Management

B.1 Document History

Version Date Brief Description of Approval Editor /
Change Authority Company
David Hutton,
GSMA
CR1001. New PRD approved by Wayne Cutler,
1.0 19/05/2015 PSMC
PSMC. GSMA,
Tom Van Pelt
GSMA
Application of the following CRs: Wayne Cutler,
- CR1002, CR1003, CR1004, GSMA
CR1005, CR1006, CR1007,
2.0 04/01/2016 PSMC
CR1008, CR1009, CR1010,
CR1011, CR1012, CR1013,
CR1014 & CR1015.
Application of the following Wayne Cutler,
CRs:- CR1016, CR1017, GSMA
3.0 17/05/2016 PSMC
CR1018, CR1019, CR1020 &
CR1021
Application of the following CRs: Wayne Cutler,
- CR1023, CR1024, CR1025, GSMA
4.0 13/06/2017 PSMC
CR1026, CR1027, CR1028,
CR1029 & CR1030.
Application of the following CRs: Jianyin Zhang,
5.0 29/05/2018 CR1031, CR1032, CR1033 & TG China Mobile
CR1034. Limited

Other Information
Type Description
Document Owner NG RILTE
Editor / Company Jianyin Zhang - China Mobile Limited

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