Global System for Mobile Communications

communications (GSM, originally "Groupe de travail Speciale

pour les services Mobiles") A standard for digital

cellular communications (in the process of being) adopted by

over 60 countries. The GSM standard is currently used in the

900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands.

In the USA trial systems akin to the related Digital Cellular

System (DCS) 18000 have been set up in several metropolitan

areas.

HSCSD is a proposed standard for circuit switched data

communications over GSM.

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[IEEE spectrum August 1999, pp. 26].

[Details? Current status? Whose standard?]

(1999-11-25)