Exam 23: The Cellulare/PCS Telephone Network

Unfortunately, there really is nothing that can be done about the ugly appearance of cellular towers.

________ technology uses a technique referred to as "spread spectrum"when transmitting signals from the cellular phone to the BYS.

The most widely used cellular standard in North America today is:

The beauty of cellular architecture is its ability to ________ frequencies with the region, thereby increasing the number of subscribers on the network.

The main difference between a cellular call and a wire line call is that cellular uses radio frequencies in the last mile to reach the end customer's cellular telephone.

The base ________ station consists of the cellular antenna, the base station equipment, and the telephone company cable.

Most cellular telephone bills show a(n) ________ charge plus the minutes-per-use charge.

Signaling in the cellular network includes the:

An antenna where cellular calls are sent and received, then sent to the next station and eventually to the called party, is called a cellular ________ station.

In the cellular telephone, the ________ is viewed as the "brain"of the unit.

TDMA and CDMA, also referred to as ________ communications services, are the newer digital standards used to carry signals in the cellular network.

Calls passing between cellular networks do not depend on SS-7 messages in the same way that local and long distance networks depend on SS-7.

Billing a cellular customer for time on line is a responsibility of the ________ switch.

The oldest and simplest standard used in the cellular network is:

Which of the following is an advantage of using the CDMA standard?

In the cellular telephone, the ________ is responsible for converting the reference frequency to the appropriate frequency for that particular cell.

Like the wire-line network, cellular calls are billed on an outgoing basis only.

One advantage introduced by the cellular telephone revolution has been the greatly simplified system of billing over the old-fashioned method.

________ technology increases the number of calls that can travel across the same frequency spectrum by using frequencies only when there is a conversation going on and compressing the voice signal from a 64 kbps to an 8 kbps word.

The first consortium to deploy satellite telephony, whose intent is to provide dial tone anywhere in the world without the need for wires, cellular towers, or other land-oriented connections is: