When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 5G - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G

    Wireless network technologies. In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the successor to 4G technology that provides connectivity to most current mobile phones. Like its predecessors, 5G networks are cellular networks, in ...

  3. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_telecommunication

    The history of telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In the 1790s, the first fixed semaphore systems emerged in Europe. However, it was not until the 1830s that electrical telecommunication systems started to appear. This article details the history of telecommunication and the ...

  4. List of wireless network technologies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_network...

    This ensures it can be applied to wireless voice telephony, mobile Internet access, fixed wireless Internet access, video calls and mobile TV technologies. CDMA2000 is a family of 3G mobile technology standards for sending voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites.

  5. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

    Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile phones than wired devices. [1] The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the ...

  6. Qualcomm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm

    It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4G, [4] CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications standards. Qualcomm was established in 1985 by Irwin Jacobs and six other co-founders. Its early research into CDMA wireless cell phone technology was funded by selling a two-way mobile digital satellite communications system known as Omnitracs.

  7. Telecommunications - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications

    Telecommunications. "Telecommunication" redirects here. For the A Flock of Seagulls song, see Telecommunication (song). Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication. As such, slow communications technologies like postal ...

  8. LTE (telecommunication) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)

    LTE stands for Long-Term Evolution [7] and is a registered trademark owned by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) for the wireless data communications technology and a development of the GSM/UMTS standards. However, other nations and companies do play an active role in the LTE project.

  9. Cellular network - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_network

    A cellular network or mobile network is a telecommunications network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless and the network is distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver (such as a base station). These base stations provide the cell with the network coverage which can be used for ...