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base station

n
(Broadcasting) a fixed transmitter that forms part of an otherwise mobile radio network
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base′ sta`tion


n.
a unit functioning as a transmitter and receiver of broadcasting or other signals, as for a CB radio or mobile phone.
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Translations
station de base
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In the previous section, we have seen that the range of a base station is dependent on the channel bandwidth and the modulation scheme.
It is important to bear in mind that all of the above methods estimate the location of the cellphone, and thus its user, relative to the location of the base station. Next follows a discussion of factors impacting on accuracy and ways of negating these factors.
Some 300 illegal base stations of mobile operators in Sofia will be phased out.
"The ZTE next-generation Pico is a unique base station that can be applied in various scenarios" said ZTE Vice President and General Manager of the TDD product line Scott Wang.
Base stations need juice, too - and in many areas, established electricity sources just aren't available.
Tim Ekandjo, chief human capital and corporate communications officer at MTC recently said, they had full permission from the Windhoek City Council to erect a base station in that area, from the onset.
For the study, researchers from Imperial College London looked at almost 7,000 children and explored whether there was any correlation between a mother living near a mobile phone base station during her pregnancy and that child's risk of developing cancer.
NEC's base station began operation in the UQ WiMAX commercial network last March and this new boost will be used to expand its service area nationwide.
The company said that the A8 Base Stations are designed to provide wide area Wi-Fi coverage and can be co-located with a 3G base station to offload data connections (and increasing available 3G capacity), while at the same time minimising investment by sharing backhaul and site costs.
announced today that in preparation for the start of extra-high-speed LTE mobile service, it is deploying new W-CDMA base stations equipped with newly developed remote radio equipment (RRE) units to provide both existing W-CDMA and forthcoming LTE service.
Operating as a stand-alone system, that is quick and easy to install, the LifeTag base station is powered from the boat's 12v power supply.