gsm900

Mar 23, 2005 2 Replies

Hello All



May I know why do we need the number 900 to make GSM900 meaningful? Is it because the rf signal is in 900 MHz? or the local oscillator used for GSM900 system is at 900 MHz? Kindly enlighthen



rgds and thanks jason


In article , Ian Stirling writes: |> jason wrote: |> > Hello All |> > |> > May I know why do we need the number 900 to make GSM900 meaningful? |> > Is it because the rf signal is in 900 MHz? |> > |> Yes.

And because there are other variants, GSM1800 (Europe and almost everybody else) and GSM1900 (USA). Newer phones usually can do all three.

Georg Acher, acher@in.tum.de http://wwwbode.in.tum.de/~acher "Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias

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