characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization); "the cellular construction of a beehive"; "any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular"; "a cellular phone uses a network of shortrange transmitters located in overlapping cells"
A term referring to the shape of fabric connecting pleats that form cells Return to Top
A mobile network service provided by a mobile network service operator/provider The user typically pays for making and receiving calls Cellular transmission is primarily used outdoors
The most familiar type of wireless communication It is called "cellular" because each service area was divided into cells or cell stations
The name given to the original concept of dividing a large geographic area into smaller coverage areas called 'cells ' Each cell handles calls on different channels and communicates with the central processing unit, called a switch, to facilitate handing-off calls from one cell to another as a user moves through the system Cellular is currently used in hundreds of countries worldwide and boasts more than 200 million subscribers
The type of wireless communication that is most familiar to mobile phones users Called 'cellular' because the system uses many base stations to divide a service area into multiple 'cells' Cellular calls are transferred from base station to base station as a user travels from cell to cell
Refers to communications systems, especially the Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS), that divide a geographic region into sections, called cells This division makes the most efficient use of a limited number of transmission frequencies Each connection, or conversation, requires its own dedicated frequency The total number of available frequencies is about 1,000, so to support more than 1,000 simultaneous conversations, cellular systems allocate a number of frequencies for each cell
It refers to the way cities and counties are divided into basic geographic unit, called cells
A wireless communications network architecture which employs "cells" or modular coverage areas, typically serviced by a cell site, and usually provides hand-off capability between cells for roaming devices (See also hand-off and roaming)
Circuit-switched voice telephone communications via cellular radio channels The service area is divided into many cells and in each there is a base station handling the communications in that particular cell
is a word used to mean a lot of different things According to the FCC, cellular refers to any portable phone system which operates in the 800 MHz band allocated for use by portable phone systems This includes AMPS, IS-136 and IS-95 At one time, only AMPS existed, and in some contexts cellular is used as a synonym for AMPS (In particular, a "cellular ready modem" usually refers to one which works in AMPS mode, and often only in AMPS mode ) In some contexts it is used generically to refer to any portable phone system which relies on a grid of service provider antennas, and thus the term is used sometimes to include PCS
A wireless telephone system where each geographic area (cell) is covered by a base station; users are handed over to other base stations as they move from cell to cell; analog and digital systems exist
In wireless communications, cellular refers most basically to the structure of the wireless transmission networks which are comprised of cells or transmission sites Cellular is also the name of the wireless telephone system originally developed by Bell Laboratories that used low-powered analogue radio equipment to transmit within cells The term "cellular phone" is used interchangeably to refer to wireless phones Within the wireless industry, cellular is also used to refer to non-PCS products and services Back to the top