5 Applicability to telecommunication services

22.0943GPPFollow Me service descriptionRelease 17Stage 1TS

3GPP TS 22.001 describes the principles of the Telecommunication services provided in a PLMN. It also defines the concepts of Telecommunication services and describes their characterization by appropriate attributes. Bearer services and Teleservices, which are offered by a PLMN in connection with other networks, are defined in 3GPP TS 22.002, 3GPP TS 22.003 and 3GPP TS 22.101. A list of basic service groups can be found in  3GPP TS 22.004.

Follow Me is applicable to the following telecommunication services:

Table 1: Applicability of the Follow Me feature to telecommunication services

Feature

Telephony

Emergency Call

SMS

PTP

SMS‑CB

Fax

cct Data

Voice Group Services

TS11

TS12

TS21

TS22

TS 23

TS 6x

BS2x, BS3x

TS 91

TS 92

Follow Me

Yes

Yes

Yes

No1

No1

NOTE 1: The feature is in general not applicable for Voice Group Services. However a dispatcher may be an initiating subscriber or a remote party for the Follow Me feature.

EDITOR’s Note: The applicability of FM to SMS is for further study.