Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System

Synonyms:
  • D-AMPS
German: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
Japanese: デジタル先進携帯電話システム(D-AMPS)

Communications engineering. The digital mobile phone system standard of the second generation used in the USA and Canada. It is based on the analog AMPS system which subdivides 30 kHz channels into three digital channels and uses the TDMA transmission technique. D-AMPS operates on the 800 and 1900 MHz frequency bands.

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