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  2. List of wireless network technologies - Wikipedia

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    2G (or 2-G) provides three primary benefits over their predecessors: phone conversations are digitally encrypted; 2G systems are significantly more efficient on the spectrum allowing for far greater mobile phone penetration levels; and 2G introduced data services for mobile, starting with SMS (Short Message Service) plain text-based messages. 2G technologies enable the various mobile phone ...

  3. 5G - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    2G also introduced the ability to access media content on mobile phones. In 1998, the first downloadable content sold to mobile phones was the ring tone, launched by Finland's Radiolinja (now Elisa). Advertising on the mobile phone first appeared in Finland when a free daily SMS news headline service was launched in 2000, sponsored by advertising.

  5. Comparison of mobile phone standards - Wikipedia

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    Cellular network standards and generation timeline. This is a comparison of standards of wireless networking technologies for devices such as mobile phones.A new generation of cellular standards has appeared approximately every tenth year since 1G systems were introduced in 1979 and the early to mid-1980s.

  6. 5G Broadcast - Wikipedia

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    5G Broadcast (5GB), officially known as LTE-based 5G Terrestrial Broadcast, is a standard for the distribution of television and other media content via 5G cellular networks. [1] 5G Broadcast focuses mainly on mobile use cases like smartphones. It does not require the use of a SIM card or cellular subscription, but only a device like a ...

  7. Cellular network - Wikipedia

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    t. e. 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 ...

  8. 1G - Wikipedia

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    1G refers to the first generation of cellular network (wireless) technology. These are mobile telecommunications standards that were introduced in the 1980s and were superseded by 2G . The main difference between these two mobile cellular generations is that the audio transmissions of 1G networks were analog , while 2G networks were entirely ...

  9. Media companies take $15 billion hit on cable as industry ...

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    Media companies take $15 billion hit on cable as industry turns to 'shrinking to survive'. It was a brutal week for the value of the cable bundle, as Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Paramount ...