RepDex.online
  • Technology
    • Gadgets
    • Internet
    • Apps
  • Lifestyle
  • Gaming
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Technology
    • Gadgets
    • Internet
    • Apps
  • Lifestyle
  • Gaming
RepDex.online

Feeding your Focus👣

Mobile Terms

2G Definition

by Repdex January 21, 2021

Our site is reader-supported. When you buy a product via our links, we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. Read full disclosure here.

Table of Contents hide
What is the 2G Network?
Benefits of the 2G Network

What is the 2G Network?

2G which can also be short-termed 2-G is a second-generation cellular network. 2G cellular networks commercially launched on the GSM in Finland by Radiolinja (which is now an embodiment of Elisa Oyj) in 1991.

Benefits of the 2G Network

There are three main primary benefits of 2G networks over their predecessors which are:

  1. Data services on mobile and SMS text messages.
  2. Efficiency increase in the use of the radiofrequency spectrum, enabling more users per frequency band. 
  3. Digital Encryption of phone conversations.

2G technologies can provision of services like messages, picture messages and MMS services (Multi-Media Messages) to various networks.

All text messages transferred or sent or received over the 2G are all digitally encrypted, permitting secured data transfer that only the receiver can receive and read it.

After the 2G network was launched, the past mobile wireless network systems were

After 2G was launched, the previous mobile wireless network systems were retroactively tweaked/dubbed 1G. And on the other hand, radio signals on 1G networks are analog, and on the 2g networks, radio signals are digital. Both the 1G and 2G uses digital signaling to connect to radio towers (which listen to the devices) to the whole part of the mobile system. 

Through the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), 2G offers a theoretical maximum transfer speed of 40 kilobytes per second.

Using Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution, also called (EDGE), there is a consistent highest transfer speed of 384 kilobytes per second.

The most current 2G technology was the time division multiple access (TDMA)-based GSM, incipiently from Europe but used in the most utmost of the world outside North America.

Over 60 GSM operators were also using CDMA2000 in the 450 MHz frequency band (CDMA450) around 2010.

Related terms:

  • CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access)
  • 3G
  • 4G
  • 5G
How to Achieve a Good Bronze Skin Tone

Related

Share
FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Repdex

Jesus Loves YOU.....Give your life to Jesus

You May Also Like

1G – History & Definition

macOS (Operating System) – Explained

Operating System – Definition

iOS – History & Definition

Android Operating System (OS) – Definition

Leave a Comment Cancel Reply

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Sponsored Posts

©2021 - All Right Reserved. Designed and Developed by Repdex.online

735 Texas Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 United States