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n. (context telecommunications English) All the user equipment (mobile phone, SIM card etc) and software needed for communication with a GSM network.
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A mobile station (MS) comprises all user equipment and software needed for communication with a mobile network.
The term refers to the global system connected to the mobile network, i.e. a mobile phone or mobile computer connected using a mobile broadband adapter. This is the terminology of 2G systems like GSM. In 3G systems, a mobile station (MS) is now referred to as user equipment (UE).
In GSM, a mobile station consists of four main components:
- Mobile termination (MT) - offers common functions of a such as: radio Transmission and handover, speech encoding and decoding, Error detection and correction, signalling and access to the SIM. The IMEI code is attached to the MT. It is equivalent to the network termination of an ISDN access.
- Terminal equipment (TE) - is any device connected to the MS offering services to the user. It does not contain any functions specific to GSM.
- Terminal adapter (TA) - Provides access to the MT as if it were an ISDN network termination with extended capabilities. Communication between the TE and MT over the TA takes place using AT commands.
- Subscriber identity module (SIM) - is a removable subscriber identification token storing the IMSI a unique key shared with the mobile network operator and other data.
In a mobile phone, the MT, TA and TE are enclosed in the same case. However, the MT and TE functions are often performed by distinct processors. The application processor serves as a TE, while the baseband processor serves as a MT, communication between both takes place over a bus using AT commands, which serves as a TA.
Mobile station is a closed Amtrak train station in Mobile, Alabama. Built in 1956 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, it replaced an earlier station on the same site and took over passenger train service from the decaying Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal. Amtrak continued serving the station when it took over the railroad in 1971. Mobile station was a stop on the Sunset Limited line, and was also the southern terminus of the Gulf Breeze train from 1989 to 1994. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina flooded the station and Amtrak discontinued the Sunset Limited east of New Orleans. In 2006, CSX sold the property to a developer, who razed the station in 2007. The site plan provides for a future station nearby. Amtrak announced in 2016 that plans for a return of the Sunset Limited were under consideration.
A mobile station is a system in telecommunications comprising all user equipment and software needed to communicate with a mobile network.
Mobile station may also refer to:
- Mobile station (Amtrak), a former Amtrak station in Mobile, Alabama
- Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal, another former train station in Mobile, Alabama
- Mobile radio station, a radio station used in motion
Usage examples of "mobile station".
Tommy reached into the glove compartment for his mobile station logbook.
We did not even stop for lunch but picked up some crackers and candy bars at a Mobile station when we stopped for gasoline.
Plexis designed a mobile station that would literally engulf a metal-rich asteroid, processing its ore on route to the nearest market.
It was tan brick with a dry cleaner downstairs and the Embassy Mobile station next door.
From dispersal profiles, he could tell that the small craft in front-the earliest to pass by-was no larger than his mobile station.