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Chapter 10
Cellular Access Systems
Lauren Collins and Scott R. Ellis
10.1 DELINEATION
In the United States, for the most part, there are two types of cellular net-
works used: CDMA2000 and GSM. It gets confusing because there are so
many acronyms used together. One way to think of the dierence between
GSM and CDMA2000 is like the dierence between gasoline and diesel.
Your car probably says “unleaded” on it. GSM is a standard, and if some-
thing is compliant to that standard, then the equipment will be interop-
erable. A GSM phone, then, will not interoperate with CDMA2000.
Similarly, car and equipment manufacturers make phones and equipment ...