[Wolves] Mobile Broadband

Adam Sweet drinky76 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 12 00:08:36 GMT 2008


--- Alex Willmer <alex at moreati.org.uk> wrote:
> Just a quick overview:
> 
> GSM is the standard for every mobile phone in
> Europe.
> GSM has come in multiple generations.
> Second generation telephony (2G) is classic GSM -
> voice and texting.
> GPRS is packet data shoe horned in GSM, aka 2.5G.
> Upto 230 kbit down.
> Third generation telephony (3G) is UMTS, voice &
> data unified.
> 3G alone can maybe achieve 1- Mbit down, power
> consumption is high.
> HSDPA is packet data optimised enhancment to 3G, aka
> 3.5G. Upto 7 Mbit
> down.
> 
> 3G is a generation of GSM. Strictly GSM is the
> standards body, which the
> standard got named after.

Alex, many thanks. I meant to say at the time that
this is a considerably better explanation than I've
been able to find anywhere else, including from the
mobile phone company's employees. Sadly my brain has
been elsewhere, so I'm saying now.

Thanks again.

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