CellphoneGlossary™
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Phone, Wireless, and Mobile Glossary
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Cell Phone Glossary Page 4 Prepaid Cellular or Prepaid Wireless: A system allowing subscribers to pay in advance for wireless services. Protocol: The special set of rules for communicating that the transmitting receivers use in a telecommunication connection when they send signals back and forth. PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network): The formal name for the world-wide telephone network. Radio-frequency Fingerprinting: An electronic process that identifies each individual wireless handset by examining its unique radio transmission characteristics. Fingerprinting is used to reduce fraud since the illegal phone can not duplicate the legal phone's radio-frequency fingerprint. Repertory Dialing: Sometimes known as "memory dialing" or "speed-calling." A feature that allows the caller to recall from 1-to-99 (or more) phone numbers from a phone's memory with the touch of just one, two or three buttons. RF (Radio Frequency): A radio signal. RFI (Radio Frequency Interference): A signal that interferes with radio communications causing noise and/or signal dropout.
Ringback Tone: The sound tone you hear when you are placing a call and are waiting for the phone to be answered. The standard tone is an on and off ringing sound. On some phones users have the ability to choose the tone.
Ringtone: A sound from your phone used to signal an incoming call or message. On most newer phones additional sounds can be downloaded from the wireless system or by data cable. These sounds can take the form of anything you want, the most popular sounds are music. Roaming: The ability to use a cellular phone outside of a usual service area - when traveling, for example. RSA (rural service area): One of the 428 FCC designated rural markets across the United States. Service plan: A rate plan selected by subscribers when they start up cellular service, usually consisting of a base rate for system access and a per-minute rate for usage. Service plans are designed to provide the most cost-effective rates for different types and amounts of usage by the cellular subscriber. SMS (Short Messaging System): A feature of some cellphones that allows users to receive and transmit short text messages using their wireless phone. Also called "text messaging."
Spectrum: The entire range of electromagnetic frequencies Standby time: The amount of time one can leave a fully charged cellular phone turned on before the phone will completely discharge the batteries. See talk time. Subscriber: A user of wireless service bought from a service provider. T9® Text Input: A feature built into some cellphones that allows you to use one key press per letter when entering text (SMS/Text Messaging) on your wireless phone. Talk time: The length of time one can talk on a cellular phone without recharging the battery. The battery capacity of a cellular portable or transportable is usually expressed in terms of so many minutes of talk time OR so many hours of standby time. TDMA (time division multiple access): A method of digital wireless communications transmission allowing a large number of users to access (in sequence) a single radio frequency channel without interference by allocating unique time slots to each user within each channel. CellPhoneGlossary continues -->  |
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