GSM is a globally accepted standard for digital cellular communications.
What is GSM?
If you are in Europe, Asia or Japan and using a mobile phone then most probably you must be using GSM technology in your mobile phone.
GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communication and is an open, digital cellular technology used for transmitting mobile voice and data services.
The GSM emerged from the idea of cell-based mobile radio systems at Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s.
The GSM is the name of a standardization group established in 1982 to create a common European mobile telephone standard.
The GSM standard is the most widely accepted standard and is implemented globally.
The GSM is a circuit-switched system that divides each 200kHz channel into eight 25kHz time-slots. GSM operates in the 900MHz and 1.8GHz bands in Europe and the 1.9GHz and 850MHz bands in the US.
The GSM is owning a market share of more than 70 percent of the world's digital cellular subscribers.
The GSM makes use of narrowband Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technique for transmitting signals.
The GSM was developed using digital technology. It has an ability to carry 64 kbps to 120 Mbps of data rates.
Presently GSM support more than one billion mobile subscribers in more than 210 countries throughout of the world.
The GSM provides basic to advanced voice and data services including Roaming service. Roaming is the ability to use your GSM phone number in another GSM network.
A GSM digitizes and compresses data, then sends it down through a channel with two other streams of user data, each in its own time slot. It operates at either the 900 MHz or 1,800 MHz frequency band.
Why GSM?
The GSM study group aimed to provide the followings through the GSM: ▪ Improved spectrum efficiency. ▪ International roaming. ▪ Low-cost mobile sets and base stations (BSs) ▪ High-quality speech ▪ Compatibility with Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and other