Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Wireless networks are telephone or computer networks that use radio as their carrier or physical layer. Wireless LAN - local area networks Wireless PAN - personal area networks GSM - Global standard for digital mobile communication, common in most countries except South Korea and Japan PCS - Personal communication system - not a single standard, this covers both CDMA and GSM networks operating at 1900 MHz in North America Mobitex - pager-based network in the USA and Canada, built by Ericsson, now used by PDAs such as the Palm VII and Research in Motion BlackBerry GPRS - General Packet Radio Service, upgraded packet-based service within the GSM framework, gives higher data rates and always-on service UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone Service (3rd generation cell phone network), based on the W-CDMA radio access network AX.25 - amateur packet radio NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephony, analog system originally developed by PTTs in the Nordic countries AMPS - America Mobile Phone System D-AMPS - Digital AMPS, also known as TDMA Some research institutes University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Helsinki University of Technology Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) Some companies Handsets, network equipment Nokia Ericsson Siemens AG http://wlab.de Service provider Boingo Some communities RedLibre FreeNetworks PersonalTelco Some ideas Warchalking This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.