Both cellular and PCS phones use cellular technology.Ī service for persons with hearing disabilities that translates television program dialog into written words on the television screen.

This term, often used for all wireless phones regardless of the technology they use, derives from cellular base stations that receive and transmit calls. The standard American billing system requires wireless phone customers to pay for all calls made and received on a wireless phone. FCC rules require suppression of the signal outside the band to prevent interference.īroadband is a descriptive term for evolving digital technologies that provide consumers a signal switched facility offering integrated access to voice, high-speed data service, video-demand services, and interactive delivery services.Ī billing method in which a wireless phone caller pays only for making calls and not for receiving them. The necessary bandwidth is the amount of spectrum required to transmit the signal without distortion or loss of information. The capacity of a telecom line to carry signals. A fee charged subscribers or other telephone companies by a local exchange carrier for the use of its local exchange networks.Ī signaling method that uses continuous changes in the amplitude or frequency of a radio transmission to convey information.

Radio comms lingo