Terminology and References
Further information: Mobile phone terms across the world
Related non-mobile-phone systems
- Car phone
- A type of telephone permanently mounted in a vehicle, these often have more powerful transmitters, an external antenna and loudspeaker for handsfree use. They usually connect to the same networks as regular mobile phones.
- Cordless telephone (portable phone)
- Cordless phones are telephones which use one or more radio handsets in place of a wired handset. The handsets connect wirelessly to a base station, which in turn connects to a conventional land line for calling. Unlike mobile phones, cordless phones use private base stations (belonging to the land-line subscriber), and which are not shared.
- Professional Mobile Radio
- Advanced professional mobile radio systems can be very similar to mobile phone systems. Notably, the IDEN standard has been used as both a private trunked radio system as well as the technology for several large public providers. Similar attempts have even been made to use TETRA, the European digital PMR standard, to implement public mobile networks.
- Radio phone
- This is a term which covers radios which could connect into the telephone network. These phones may not be mobile; for example, they may require a mains power supply, they may require the assistance of a human operator to set up a PSTN phone call.
- Satellite phone
- This type of phone communicates directly with an artificial satellite, which in turn relays calls to a base station or another satellite phone. A single satellite can provide coverage to a much greater area than terrestrial base stations. Since satellite phones are costly, their use is typically limited to people in remote areas where no mobile phone coverage exists, such as mountain climbers, mariners in the open sea, and news reporters at disaster sites.
See also
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- Mobile telephony
- Harvard sentences
- List of countries by number of mobile phones in use
- Mobile Internet Device (MID)
- Mobile Marketing Association
- ReCellular Inc.
- OpenBTS
References
- ^ Ulyseas, Mark (2008-01-18). "Of Cigarettes and Cellphones". The Bali Times. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
- ^ "Special History Issue" (PDF). speleonics 15 IV (3). October 1990.
- ^ Cooper, et al., "Radio Telephone System", US Patent number 3,906,166; Filing date: Oct 17, 1973; Issue date: September 1975; Assignee Motorola
- ^ BBC interview with Martin Cooper
- ^ Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology
- ^ History of UMTS and 3G development
- ^ IDC - Press Release
- ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9878005-7.html
- ^ You Witness News
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