---
license: other
license_name: 3gpp
license_link: https://www.3gpp.org/
language:
- en
tags:
- telecommunications
- 3gpp
- 5g
- 4g
- lte
- nr
- standards
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
pretty_name: 3GPP Specifications (Rel-8 to Rel-20)
---

# 3GPP Specifications — GSMA Mirror

Two-folder mirror of the 3GPP Technical Specification corpus, Releases 8
through 20, plus the full Datalab-converted Markdown rendering used for
downstream training and retrieval.

## Layout

```
GSMA/3GPP/
├── original/          raw sources, as downloaded from 3gpp.org
│   └── Rel-{8..20}/
│       └── {NN}_series/
│           ├── *.docx
│           ├── *.doc          (legacy, mostly Rel-18 41-55 series)
│           └── *.zip          (Rel-20 paired packages)
└── marked/            Datalab-converted Markdown + inline images
    └── Rel-{8..19}/
        └── {NN}_series/
            └── {spec_id}/
                ├── raw.md
                └── *.jpg      (figures extracted alongside the text)
```

`marked/` does not yet include Rel-20 (ingestion in progress).

## Coverage

| Release | .docx | .doc | .zip | Total |
|---------|------:|-----:|-----:|------:|
| Rel-8   | 1145  |   0  |   0  | 1145  |
| Rel-9   | 1254  |   0  |   0  | 1254  |
| Rel-10  | 1132  |   0  |   0  | 1132  |
| Rel-11  | 1265  |   0  |   0  | 1265  |
| Rel-12  | 1316  |   0  |   0  | 1316  |
| Rel-13  | 1429  |   0  |   0  | 1429  |
| Rel-14  | 1393  |   0  |   0  | 1393  |
| Rel-15  | 1605  |   0  |   0  | 1605  |
| Rel-16  | 1713  |   0  |   0  | 1713  |
| Rel-17  | 1906  |   0  |   0  | 1906  |
| Rel-18  | 1051  | 564  |   0  | 1615  |
| Rel-19  | 1542  |  75  |   0  | 1617  |
| Rel-20  |   42  |   6  |  48  |   96  |

Grand total: ~17,686 source files across 13 releases.

Notes:

- Rel-14 is the first release with `38_series` (5G NR).
- Rel-19 omits `25_series` (UTRA legacy, deprecated).
- Rel-18 extends past 38 into the 41–55 range (mostly legacy `.doc`).
- Rel-20 mixes `.docx` specs with their paired `.zip` distributions.

## Quickstart

Pull a single spec:

```bash
curl -L -o 21101-j00.docx \
  https://huggingface.co/datasets/GSMA/3GPP/resolve/main/original/Rel-19/21_series/21101-j00.docx
```

Pull the markdown view of the same spec:

```bash
curl -L -o raw.md \
  https://huggingface.co/datasets/GSMA/3GPP/resolve/main/marked/Rel-19/21_series/21101/raw.md
```

Clone a single release folder with the HF CLI:

```bash
huggingface-cli download GSMA/3GPP \
  --repo-type dataset \
  --include 'marked/Rel-19/**' \
  --local-dir ./rel-19
```

## Provenance

- `original/` was downloaded from `3gpp.org` release archives.
- `marked/` is produced by running each document through
  [Datalab's](https://datalab.to/) DOCX → Markdown converter, preserving
  section structure, tables, and extracting embedded figures as JPGs.

## Licence

3GPP specifications are released under the 3GPP terms of use. Redistribution
here is limited to mirroring the public publications; consult the upstream
source for authoritative versions and for any commercial use.

- Upstream: https://www.3gpp.org/specifications
- 3GPP copyright: https://www.3gpp.org/about-us/ip-policy