Wireless network
Wireless networks are telephone or computer networks that use radio as their carrier or physical layer. * Wireless LAN - local area networks * Wireless PAN - personal area networks * GSM - Global standard for digital mobile communication, common in most countries except the USA and Japan * PCS - Personal communication system - not a single standard, this covers both CDMA and GSM networks operating at 1900 MHz in North America * Mobitex - pager-based network in the USA, built by Ericsson, now used by PDAs such as the Palm VII and Research in Motion BlackBerry * GPRS - General Packet Radio Service, upgraded packet-based service within the GSM framework, gives higher data rates and always-on service * UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone Service (3rd generation cell phone network), based on the W-CDMA radio access network * AX.25 - amateur packet radio * NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephony, analog system originally developed by PTTs in the Nordic countries * AMPS - America Mobile Phone System * D-AMPS - Digital AMPS, also known as TDMA
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