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