cellular networks
Wireless phone systems
Cellular networks are telecommunications systems that divide geographic areas into cells, each served by a base station or tower.
Your phone connects to the nearest tower and hands off to the next as you move—hence "cellular." The term usually means mobile phone networks: The cellular network was overloaded after the earthquake.
Wi-Fi and wired internet are distinct from cellular.
- Wi-FiWireless network standard
- LTEWireless broadband standard
- base stationFixed wireless communication point
- 5GCurrent mobile network standard
- mobile internetWireless network connectivity
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- telecommunicationscellphone, signals, telephone calls, antennas, radio waves
- telecom equipmentrouters, servers, modems, switches, antennas
- broadcastingbroadcasting, TV, radio, television, news
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
cellular networkslandlines
Stationary wired telephones
PSTN · DSL · Ethernet · cable networks · fiber-to-the-home
cellular networksWiFi
Radio-based network access
mesh networks · local area networks · peer-to-peer networks · Bluetooth · satellite networks
cellular networkstelegraph
Electrical message system
rotary phones · smoke signals · switchboard operators · party lines · carrier pigeons
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