"Wireless technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace and along with it so too does the language used by the wireless industry - which at times can leave even the most accomplished wireless practitioner confused or bemused" 1G The first generation of analogue mobile phone technologies including AMPS, TACS and NMT 2G The second generation of digital mobile phone technologies including GSM, CDMA IS-95 and D-AMPS IS-136 2.5G The enhancement of GSM which includes technologies such as GPRS 3G The third generation of mobile phone technologies covered by the ITU IMT-2000 family 3GPP The 3rd Generation Partnership Project, a grouping of international standards bodies, operators and vendors with the responsibility of standardising the WCDMA based members of the IMT-2000 family 3GPP2 The counterpart of 3GPP with responsibility for standardising the CDMA2000-based members of the IMT-2000 family. 3GPP2 is spearheaded by ANSI 8PSKOctantal Phase Shift Keying A5/1/2/3/8X Encryption algor...
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