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 South Korea 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 and Canada, 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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