Primer: Intro To Cellular Networks

Introduction Basics Details Brief History Keep It Going Discuss

by Eric Lin
September 20, 2005

Have you noticed once people have acquired some expertise on a subject, they talk about it as though everyone should know as much as they do? And if you don't understand what they are saying, some of those people are not nice enough to explain it to you, belittling you instead? People who know about cell phones are not necessarily geniuses or geeks. They do not have any special powers that bestow technical knowledge upon them. They've simply been around cellular technology long enough to have picked it up.

Now you don't have to spend years around mobile phones just to understand how they work. We've broken it down in plain English so that the next time someone goes spouting off about CDMA 2000 1xRTT or some other obscure cellular acronym, you can join in the conversation with confidence.

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