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The base station tower.
cellular or mobile 'phones are constantly talking to each other. The mobile is saying 'here i am' to the base station
The base station
Base station
You can be up to 300 ft away from the base station.
They are the directional microwave links between a base station or other tower in-case the physical telecommunication line gets severed
VTech phones offer new advances in home/office Telco solutions. One is the ability to have your cellular phone pair with the base station through the Blue Tooth pairing options. Another nice feature is the ability to add separate hand sets to the base station at any time. The additional hand sets added can be from 4 to 8 depending on the base station's capability.
Mobile telephones use numerous low power base stations to communicate. As a phone moves, it can transfer its connection from one base station to another so that calls are not dropped while travelling. The base stations are called cells and together form a cellular network. It is the base station technology that lent its name to the portable telephone in North America. Many other English speaking countries have different names for them with the term "mobile" being used in the UK for example.
As far as i know, the actual phone has to have 4G hardware in it and a 4G antenna to communicate with the upgraded 4G tower equipment. That's pretty much it. On the more technical side, 4G uses an entirely different air interface to communicate from mobile to base station.
The cellular telephone network is one of the most complex machines ever invented. Cells refer to a 'honeycomb ' of transmitters and receivers who can identify all the phones switched on in their area and log these into a global database of their locations. A fibre optic cable network and switching grid enable any phone in the world,using the GSM standard, to communicate. A phone 'pings' the base station to let it know where it is and when a call is made the nearest transmitter sends dial tone to the phone, logs it's number,signal strength and SIM details. The destination phone is then located by it's 'ping' and the call is routed via optical fibres and emerges at the nearest base station to the called phone. If the phone being called is in a moving car or train the call is set up and the signal strength is monitored by 2 stations or cells. When the signal becomes too weak for the active base station to carry the call it hands the call over to the next cell and so on up the highway or track side transceiver. This is just an overview., in reality it is much more complicated than this!
Mobile telephones use numerous low power base stations to communicate. As a phone moves, it can transfer its connection from one base station to another so that calls are not dropped while travelling. The base stations are called cells and together form a cellular network. It is the base station technology that lent its name to the portable telephone in North America. Many other English speaking countries have different names for them with the term "mobile" being used in the UK for example.
In a cellular telephone network, handoff is the transition for any given user of signal transmission from one base station to a geographically adjacent base station as the user moves around.