Base Station

Base Station

The central radio transmitter/receiver that maintains communications with mobile radiotelephone sets within a given range (typically a cell site). (Cingular)

Base stations (or BS) are low-power multi-channel two-way radios which are in a fixed location. They are typically used by low-power single-channel, two-way radios such as mobile phones, portable phones and wireless routers. When you talk on such a mobile phone, the signals from your mobile (and perhaps dozens of other people around you) are being received and sent to a nearby base station. From that base station your phone call is connected into the regular land-line phone system by the mobile phone network. In the case of a portable phone, the connection is typically direct to a land line.

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