Dylan Smith wrote:
In article , Tim Baron wrote:

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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:


Now, if you have one of those "personal communication systems"

(AKA "PCS phones"),


Not 900 Mhz in the US. Perhaps you meant to say 1900 Mhz range.


What is PCS? Is it just marketdroid speak for GSM? (IIRC, the US uses
1900MHz for GSM)

No, it's just the term used to distinguish the newer 1900 MHz frequency
band from the older 800 MHz cellular band. The FCC auctioned off the
1900 MHz frequencies to allow more carriers to offer 'cellular-type'
services in each region and to make some money for the government.
GSM is one technology used by some of those carriers in this band, but
CDMA and TDMA technologies are also used.