Mobile Phone Service

One of the best technological inventions till date, I'm sure many of us will agree is the Mobile and mobile phone services. People have become so dependent on them that it has completely taken over our lives. Imagine having the ability to stay connected with your loved ones and friends any part of the world at any given time.

It has also made life so convenient for employees and businessmen who travel frequently. With the growing number of players in this market we even enjoy better mobile phone service rates. There are many mobile phone services currently available. They are digital services that offer users the facility to make voice and data calls and let us not forget the many benefits that come with it. Services such as call waiting, caller identification; short messaging, email and video help us a great deal in locating business associates, employers, employees, family members etc. These truly value added services such as the caller identification facility, helps us maintain our privacy and security.

Different regions use different mobile services such as land based services use either Global System for Mobiles (GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technologies in one or more spectrum bands or the new third generation network.

- GSM is a standard for digital cellular communications (in process) used by more than 60 countries and GSM standard is currently used in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands.

- TDMA is a digital wireless communications transmission method, that allows umpteen number of subscribers to easy and disturbance free access, to a single radio- frequency channel. Each user is given a unique time slot within each channel.

- SMS Mobile Originate is recently gone live on several TDMA networks across the world

- CDMA designates a code to all speech bits then sends a scrambled transmission of the encoded speech over the air and decodes the speech to its original form when it reaches it's destination. CDMA supports SMS with a message comprising of up to120 characters. CDMA, digitizes every conversation and then tags it with a code. The mobile phone receives a signal to locate that particular code after which it decodes the conversation from the airwaves.

- GPRS , yet another mobile phone service, supports a wide range of bandwidths, efficiently uses limited bandwidth for transporting both small bits of data, such as e- mail and Web browsing, as well as large volumes of data.

The business and leisure travelers can choose those mobile phone services that are available in the local area they are in but also be able to make international calls without any problem but this facility would have an additional cost. The fact is , it's worth the service.