Mobile Phone Dictionary
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Call Divert - Enables you to divert incoming calls to another phone or answering service.
Call Holding - Enables you to put a caller on hold while a second call is answered or made.
Calling Line Identification - (or CLI) Shows the number of the person calling you in your mobile phone's display. You can then make an informed choice as to whether or not to take the call. Bear in mind that not all numbers can be displayed.
Call Timer - Keep track of the time you accrue each month toward an allotment of airtime minutes.
Calling Plan - A package of services offered by wireless service providers that outlines the activation charge, monthly charges, per-minute air time charges, roaming charges, local service and area as well as additional service charges (such as caller ID, call waiting or voicemail). See also Coverage Area , Local Service Area , Roaming.
Car Kit - Accessories that allow you to use your phone hands-free in the car. A car kit may contain a few essential items such as a fast battery charger, a hands-free holder (hardware to hold the phone) or may be more robust and include connections to an external antenna, external speaker for better audio quality or a junction box with data port for optional fax/modem connections.
Cell - The geographic area encompassing the signal range from one base station (a site containing a radio transmitter/receiver and network communication equipment). Wireless transmission networks are comprised of many hexagonal, overlapping cell sites to efficiently use radio spectrum for wireless transmissions. Also, the basis for the term "cellular phone."
Cell Phone – A portable phone that is also referred to as a mobile phone or cellular phone.
Cellular - Refers to the structure of the wireless transmission networks which are comprised of cells or transmission sites. Cellular is also the name of the wireless telephone system originally developed by Bell Laboratories that used low-powered analog radio equipment to transmit within cells. The terms "cellular phone" or "cell phone" are used interchangeably to refer to wireless phones. Within the wireless industry, cellular is also used to refer to non-PCS products and services.
Cellular Phone – A portable phone that is also referred to as a cell phone or mobile phone.
Colour Screen - The number of colours your phone has in it will be reflected in the quality of the image that you can see when using O2 Active or Media Messaging. More colours give you a better experience. Typically phones have either 4,000 or 65,000 colours. Some of the original colour screen phones have only 256 colours.
Compatible Phone - Any GSM phone that is not locked to another mobile phone network will work with any Network SIM Card.
Connection fee - A one-off connection fee is charged when you sign up to one of the mobile phone networks
Coverage - Denotes the area in which a mobile phone can make and receive calls. It is often described by networks in terms of the percentage of population that can use the service rather than actual geographic coverage.
Data capability / Services - Ability of certain phones to access services such as e-mail, fax & SMS.
Dead Spot - An area within the coverage area of a wireless network in which there is no coverage or transmission falls off. Dead spots are often caused by electronic interference or physical barriers such as hills, tunnels and indoor parking garages.
DECT - Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication. Digital standard for cordless phones. Using 120 channels over 10 frequencies, these cordless phones offer speech quality which is vastly superior to that offered by traditional (CT0) analogue cordless phones.
Desktop charger - Cradle for holding a phone upright while it is charging.
Digital - The technology that all networks use. The digital network offers better coverage, more services and it is more secure than the old analogue network
Direct Debit - Regular payments that you authorise to be debited (withdrawn) directly from your bank account.
DTMF - Dual Tone Multi-Frequency. A method of sending multi-frequency tones across a telephone network. These tones are used for tone dialling and accessing various services.
Dual band - Phones that can switch between two different bands of frequencies. All new phones in the UK are now dual-band, capable of switching between GSM1800 and GSM900 frequencies. Useful for travellers (particularly those on One 2 One and Orange), allowing roaming on a greater number of networks across the world. Vodafone and BT Cellnet also utilise dual-band capabilities in the UK by using 1800MHz bandwidth to solve capacity problems on their 900MHz networks. Phones that can switch between GSM900 and GSM1900 operation, for use by travellers to America (the Bosch World 718, Ericsson I888 and Ericsson T28 World), are also now available.
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