Peeves

[Kar98]

Originally Posted by fnkngrv

Everyone calls their mobile phones "cell" phones. There have not been cell phones for at least 10 years. A cellular phone was old TDM tech whereas once the phones went digital and pretty much moved into what has been out there since actually what GSM started to do with their evolution around 2000 is a mobile telephony network.

They're called cell phones because the base stations form cells of phone coverage. The actual technology, be that AMPS, TDMA, CDMA, GSM, UMTS etc has nothing to do with that.