Influenced by a post from earlier today, what do these mean? how does it work? I just know 1X means my phone data is basically useless and 4G/LTE is great. Not sure about any of the rest.
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These are data standards for mobile phone systems. The long story short is that as mobile phone networks have evolved, the people who make the equipment and write the software sit down and create common design criteria for how phones and networks all should interact with each other to allow for widespread deployment that can be accessed with common equipment.
These standards are pretty complex and wide-ranging because that’s what it takes to have the ability to take your phone to other parts of the world and just have it work. But they’ll define things such as how the radios should operate, and once the radios are operating how they’ll signal data back and forth, how that data is organized so it can be read, how it gets transmitted across the network, etc.
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