Whats the difference between Mobile, Cellular, and Digital PCS phones?
The short answer: Nothing The longer answer: Cellular phones are based on the concept explained above regarding a phone moving between adjacent cellular tower sites. In the North American market, “Cellular” phones have existed since the mid 1980’s. In the mid to late 1990’s, newer digital technologies where introduced to replace the older analog technology. As a marketing ploy for newer technology, many service providers and phone companies promoted these newer phones as “Digital Personal Communication Service” or “PCS”. Now that most of the market is using digital phones, the idea behind Digital PCS has faded and people once again default to “Cellular Phone”. The word “Mobile” is common in Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East, Australia and most of Asia. The word “Cellular” is more common in the Americas, parts of Eastern Asia and Southern Africa. “Mobile” likely evolved as part of the GSM (Global System for Mobiles) sweep that occurred in most of the world over a decade ago. In t
