Wireless network
Wireless networks are telephone or computer networks that use radio as their carrier or physical layer.
- Wireless LAN - local area networks
- Wireless PAN - personal area networks
- GSM - Global standard for digital mobile communication, common in most countries except South Korea and Japan
- PCS - Personal communication system - not a single standard, this covers both CDMA and GSM networks operating at 1900 MHz in North America
- Mobitex - pager-based network in the USA and Canada, built by Ericsson, now used by PDAs such as the Palm VII and Research in Motion BlackBerry
- GPRS - General Packet Radio Service, upgraded packet-based service within the GSM framework, gives higher data rates and always-on service
- UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone Service (3rd generation cell phone network), based on the W-CDMA radio access network
- AX.25 - amateur packet radio
- NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephony, analog system originally developed by PTTs in the Nordic countries
- AMPS - America Mobile Phone System
- D-AMPS - Digital AMPS, also known as TDMA
- University of California, Berkeley
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Handsets, network equipment
- Nokia
- Motorola
- Ericsson (network equipment only)
- Siemens AG
- Sony Ericsson (handsets only)
- http://wlab.de
- Service provider
- Boingo
- Boingo
- RedLibre
- FreeNetworks
- Personal Telco