One of the two CDMA common air interface standards. Frequency range: 1850-1990 MHz. The following documentation describes the standard: ANSI J-STD-008. See also CDMA, CDMAONE and CELLULAR.
A low-power, high-frequency digital cellular technology. It operates in the 1.5 to 1.8 gigahertz (GHz) range. In the United States, PCS also operates at 1.9 GHz.
Personal Cellular Service. This type of service allows voice mail, paging, e-mail, caller ID for PCS supported phones.
Personal Communications Software available in ROLM, Cedar, Cypress, and Juniper makes for easy access to external databases, rapid transfer of data files, and one-touch access to most telephone features. Other PCS features include built-in calculator, small phone list, reminder function, and internal clock.
A system of cellular phone signal transmission based on the sending of a binary-coded communication signal. Also known as "Digital PCS".
A generic term used in USA for a mass-market mobile phone service. PCS includes such digital cellular technologies as GSM 1900, CDMA and TDMA IS-136.
Print Contrast Signal. The reflection ratio of the printing color. PCS = (Rw - Rb) / Rw Rw = reflection ratio of the white bar Rb = reflection ratio of the black bar The minimum value of PCS differs by the value of Rw ( reflection rate in this case is against red light at 660 nanometer wave length.) (See MRD)
Abbreviation for ersonal ommunications ystem.
A measurement of the ratio of the reflectiveness between the bars and spaces of a bar code.
Digital wireless voice, data and text messaging services. In Canada and the United States, PCS spectrum has been allocated for use by public systems at the 1.9 GHz frequency range.
ersonal ommunications ervices: A two-way, 1900 MHz digital voice, messaging and data service designed as the second generation of cellular telephones.
ersonal ommunications ervices PCs refers to wireless services that emerged after the US Government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1.8-2GHz range is typically used for digital cellular transmission that competes with analog and digital services in the 800Mhz and 900MHz bands. TechWeb
Personal Communication Services. Essentially the same as cellular, but indicating a digital phone. See this FAQ for a more detailed description.
Any service offered on a personal communications network. These include basic telephone, voice mail, paging and others. Personal communications networks operate in the 1800-2000 mHz range, utilizing low power cells compared to traditional cellular technology.
Personal Communication Services. In the United States, refers to digital mobile networks using the 1900 Mhz frequency. In other countries, refers to digital mobile networks using the 1800 Mhz frequency (See DCS-1800). The term Personal Communications Network (PCN) is also used.
Digital wireless telephone technology using higher frequency spectrum than cellular.
The Public and Commercial Services union, PCS Detailed description
Personal Communications Services, a broad range of wireless digital services that allow you to communicate with others no matter where you are.
personal communications service; a lower-powered, higher-frequency competitive technology that incorporates wireline and wireless networks and provides personalized features
Personal Communications Services. A new generation of wireless-phone technology that introduces a range of features and services surpassing those available in analog- and digital-cellular phone systems. PCS provides the user with an all-in-one wireless phone, paging, messaging, and data service.
See Personal Communication Services.
Personal communications services are similar to cellular telephones. Sometimes referred to as digital cellular, PCS enables users to enjoy greater mobility, offering fewer blind spots and transmission errors than cellular technology, which emphasizes coverage on highways and major roadways.
Personal Communications Services. A family of end-to-end telecommunications services that provide: 1) Reception/Initiation of voice or data calls via a personal number that is associated with the customer rather than a physical location, i.e., a plug in the wall, or specific terminal device. 2) Access to wire line services using a wireless terminal device. 3) The quality and security comparable to that of the wireline network.
Personal Communications Services is a two-way, 1900 Mhz digital offering now being rolled out across the United States and previously available in other countries.
Another form of wireless telecommunications services.
PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE. Any of several types of wireless, voice and/or data communications systems, typically incorporating digital technology. PCS licenses are most often used to provide services similar to advanced cellular mobile or paging services. However, PCS can also be used to provide other wireless communications services, including services that allow people to place and receive communications while away from their home or office, as well as wireless communications to homes, office buildings and other fixed locations.
Picture Communication Symbols Picture symbols used with people who cannot communicate verbally or have trouble reading. Programs such as PECS and Boardmaker are available for facilitation.
Personal Communications Services. Set of technologies used for completely digital cellular devices. 9.37
Personal Communications Services. A wireless phone service somewhat similar to cellular telephone service but emphasizing personal service and extended mobility. Like cellular, PCS is for mobile users and requires a number of antennas to blanket an area of coverage.
ersonal ommunications ervice. A wireless mobile service first licensed by the US Federal Communications Commission in 1995. PCS systems in the US operate in the 1850 - 1990 MHz band, and all systems deployed are digital.
Personal Communications Service: an American generic term for a mass-market mobile phone service, emphasizing personal communication, independent of the technology used to provide it. PCS includes such digital cellular technologies as GSM 1900, CDMA and TDMA IS-136.
Personal communications services. PCS is a mobile network standard in the US, also known as American GSM. A low-power, high-frequency cellular technology emphasizing personalized services and extended mobility. PCS operates in the1850-1990 MHz bands.
Personal Communications Service. Several types of wireless mobile and fixed station voice and data communications systems using digital technology, usually delivered to personal multifunction devices. PCS licenses are generally used to provide services similar to, and in competition with, advanced cellular, enhanced specialized mobile radio or paging services. Broadband PCS services include both voice and advanced two-way data capabilities. Narrowband PCS can be used to provide voice message paging, two-way paging and other data services.
Personal Communications System
Personal Communications Services: A broad range of services that allow mobile devices to communicate with each other. PCS mainly refers to a group of three digital cellular technologies in the U.S. - GSM, CDMA, and TDMA.
Stands for Personal Communications Services. This is a digital mobile wireless service that offers voice communications and added capabilities, such as e-mail, text messaging, voice mail, call waiting, etc. PCS provides customers with improved voice quality and security.
Personal Communications Service. A network that provides personal, terminal and service mobility. Includes broadband and narrowband in the United States.
GSM with 1900Mhz frequency
Print Contrast Signal is the measurement of the ratio of the reflectivities between the bars and spaces of a symbol.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) term used to describe a set of digital cellular technologies being deployed in the U.S. PCS works over CDMA (also called IS-95), GSM, and North American TDMA (also called IS-136) air interfaces. Two of the most important distinguishing features of PCS systems are: · They are completely digital · They operate at the 1900 MHz frequency range · Some carriers may also offer these services in the AMPs 800MHz band PCS is a second generation mobile communications technology.
Personal Communication System
Acronym for Personal Communications Services. Refers to the suite of services which are often included with a digital wireless technology.
Personal Communications Services. A term used in the United State for any mobile telephone services in the 1900 MHz frequency band.
The FCC term used to describe a set of digital cellular technologies introduced in the mid-1990s. PCS emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994-1995. Unlike cellular systems that employ both analog or digital technologies and operate in the 800 MHz frequency range, PCS systems are completely digital and operate at the 1900 MHz frequency range.
Refers to Personal Communications Service. A two way, ALL digital phone service which works at 1900 MHz frequency allowing digital voice, messaging and data transmission.
Personal Communications Service - It is a set of exclusively digital cellular technologies that are capable of operating at the 1900 MHz frequency range.
A wireless phone service somewhat similar to cellular telephone service. It's sometimes referred to as digital cellular. Like cellular, PCS is for mobile users and requires a number of antennas to blanket an area of coverage. As a user moves around, the user's phone signal is picked up by the nearest antenna and then forwarded to a base station that connects to the wired network. The phone itself is slightly smaller than a cellular phone.
Stands for personal communications services. PCS is a digital wireless service that provides greater geographic coverage, and therefore more widespread mobility, than traditional cellular phone service. PCS also uses a higher transmission frequency. Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS) is currently the leader in PCS wireless services.
Personal Communications Service. FCC terminology describing intelligent, digital wireless, personal two-way communications via PCN.
Personal Communications Service. New digital cellphone systems in 2GHz range. Mostly GSM.
(Personal Communications Services) - Similar to cellular service, PCS employs a digital signal, CDMA multiplexing, spread spectrum technology and specified usage bands that distinguish it from other wireless services.
A two-way digital voice, messaging and data service, which operates in the 1900 MHz band. Considered the ‘second generation' of wireless services.
(Personal Communication Services) A more advanced generation of phone than a cellular phone, personal communication services are almost always all digital and operate on a 1.9 GHz frequency band (different from cellular).
Personal Communications Services. A wireless technology being developed in the US. Narrowband PCS refers to a new spectrum available for paging services. The digital signals of PCS are a series of rapid pulses, unlike analog's steady flow.
Personal Communications Services. Refers to the next generation of cellular systems. Will include data services.
(personal communications service) is a broad service description for communications protocols using radio frequencies in the 1900-MHz frequency band to provide mobile telecom services, including interoperability with the wireline PSTN. In Canada, PCS may be delivered using CDMA, TDMA or GSM TDMA protocols. Outside Canada and the U.S., the PCS service description often refers to the 1800-MHz frequency band.
Personal Communications Services. A generic description of cellular communications services that combine voice, data, and paging features into a single device. The GSM and CDMA digital cellular standards can both be used for PCS.
Personal Communications Services: A two-way, 1900 MHz digital voice, messaging and data service designed as the second generation of cellular.
Short for Personal Communications Service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) term used to describe a set of digital cellular technologies being deployed in the U.S. PCS includes CDMA (also called IS-95), GSM, and North American TDMA (also called IS-136). Two of the most important distinguishing features of PCS systems are: 1. They are completely digital 2. They operate at the 1900 MHz frequency range
(Personal Communications Services) A variant of the GSM wireless phone standard (sometimes called GSM 1900). See GSM.
An alternative to cellular, PCS works like cellular technology because it sends calls from transmitter to transmitter as a caller moves. But PCS uses its own network, not a cellular network, and offers fewer "blind spots"—areas in which access to calls is not available—than cellular. PCS transmitters are generally closer together than their cellular counterparts.
Personal communications service, typified by cellular telephones and expanding to Internet related services
(Personal Communications Services) Collective term for American mobile telephone services in the 1900 MHz frequency band.
Personal Communications Service. A new, lower powered, higher-frequency competitive technology to cellular. Whereas cellular typically operates in the 800-900 MHz range, PCS operates in the 1.5 to 1.8 GHz range. The idea with PCS is that the phones are cheaper, have less range, and are digital. The cells are smaller and closer together, and airtime is cheaper.
Personal Communications Service. Digital networks deployed in cellular; like configuration at 1.8GHz to 2.2GHz.
(personal communications service): A two-way, 1,900 MHz digital wireless service that's typically packaged with calling features such as call waiting, voice mail, and caller ID.
Personal Communications Services. Refers to a variety of wireless services emerging after the U.S. Government auctioned commercial licenses in late 1994 and early 1995. This radio spectrum in the 2GHz range is used for digital transmission services that compete with analog cellular (AMPS), digital cellular and other wireless services.
(Personal Communications Services) a term used to describe two-way, 1900MHz digital wireless technology. PCS, a second-generation technology, arrived in 1990 and is the most widely deployed wireless service in North America today. It is based on circuit-switched technology where each call requires its own cell channel, which makes transmission of data quite slow. 2G PCS services include Code Division Multiple Access(CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), and GSM.
an all-digital set of cellular services operating in the 1850-1990 MHz bands. PCS technologies include CDMA, TDMA, AND GSM.
Narrowband PCS are a new generation of digital, 2-way, low-powered wireless services that support delivery of messages, full 2-way data transfer, voice messaging and connectivity via the Internet.
Personal Communications Services. Term most commonly used to refer to FCC's "Broadband PCS" designation. Broadband PCS operates with 120 MHz in the 1900 MHz band. Air link technologies use cellular configuration to provide personal mobile phone service, similar to analog cellular service in the 800 MHz band. However, Broadband PCS services are almost exclusively digital. PCS spectrum is expected to be a major component of future third generation (3G) mobile voice/data services. The FCC also has designated an "Unlicensed PCS" service in the 1910-1930 MHz band to support high-speed local area networks and wireless PBXs. The "Narrowband PCS" service in the 900 MHz band is used to offer advanced packet-based paging services, including voice and text messages.
Used to describe a newer class of wireless communications services recently authorized by the FCC. PCS systems use a different radio frequency(the 1.9 GHz band) than cellular phones and generally use all digital technology for transmission and reception.
Personal Communication Service
Personal Communication Services. Refers to the emerging market of wireless communications that is personalised with services selected by the individual. The wireless PCS networks use radio signals as the access point to the network; the wireless network is then tied back into the public switched network for call routing to or from the wireless subscriber to the other party.
Personal Communications Services. A new, lower-powered, higher-frequency competitive technology to cellular. In Canada and the United States, PCS spectrum has been allocated for use by public systems at the 1.9 GHz frequency range. PCS consist of enhanced voice, two-way data and text messaging services, primarily directed at the mass consumer mobile communications market. Such PCS applications are expected to be followed over time by services offering integrated voice, data, image and potentially video capability.
Abbreviation for "pieces" as in "12 pcs/display".
Print Contrast Signal. Found as a part of a bar code specification the Print Contrast Signal compares the amount of light reflected by the bars, in contrast to the amount of light reflected by the spaces in a bar code symbol. The Print Contrast Signal value is the bar reflectance expressed as a percentage of the space reflectance.
Personal Communications Services. Digital wireless telephone service that is lower powered and has higher frequency than regular cellular phones. PCS phones can be less expensive and offer higher sound quality. The downside is that the PCS network is not as far-reaching as the cellular network yet. "Digital PCS" is a redundancy, as all PCS are digital, but the phrase is used in marketing to differentiate PCS from Cellular.
Personal Communications Services, a higher frequency, digital wireless phone service similar to cellular. It operates in the 1850-1900MHz band, while traditional cellular uses 824-849MHz.
A two-way digital voice, messaging and data wireless telephone service. PCS stands for ersonal ommunications ervices.
Personal Communications Services. Term describing a series of second-generation wireless technologies. PCS technologies all share the characteristics of being completely digital and operating at the 1900 MHz frequency range.
Print Contrast Signal. A measurement of contrast between the bars and spaces of a symbol. A minimum PCS value is needed for a symbol to be scannable. PCS values can be calculated and displayed automatically on suitable instruments.
Personal Communications Service (PCS) is a suite of second-generation, digitally modulated mobile-communications interfaces that includes TDMA, CDMA, and GSM. PCS serves as an umbrella term for second-generation wireless technologies operating in the 1900MHz range
Personal Communication Services. A general category for two way digital networks with integrated voice, data, and messaging capabilities.
Mobile communications system interconnected with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), the regular telephone network.
Personal Communications Services. A low-powered, high-frequency alternative to traditional cellular. Today, PCS refers to the 1900 MHz cellular frequency band. However, PCS is commonly used as a marketing term to describe an array of two-way digital wireless service offerings in the Americas, regardless of the particular frequency band being used.
Originally meant to describe digital service offered at a higher frequency (1900 MHz) than wireless, it is now used as a generic term for all digital (versus analog) wireless.
Physical coding sub-layer. Many protocols divide the physical layer of the open system interconnection (OSI) model into two further sub-layers, PMA and PCS. The PCS sub-layer describes the digital functionality of the physical interface, including word alignment, pattern detection and data coding scheme such as 8b10b.
A two-way digital voice, messaging and data wireless telephone service. PCS stands for Personal Communications Services.
A digital service that operates in the 1.8GHz to 2GHz band and uses both microcell and picocell architectures.
Personal Communications Service. A generic term for a mass-market mobile personal communications service, independent of the technology used to provide it. Also, a type of digital wireless network in North America that operates in the 1,900 MHz frequency band. Example: Sprint PCS, which uses CDMA technology.
Print contrast signal. A measurement of the ratio of the reflectivities between the bars and spaces of a symbol, commonly expressed in percent. PCS is calculated as: RL : RD x 100 percent where RL = reflectivity of the light elements RD = reflectivity of the dark elements
Personal Communications Service. New digital wireless telephone technology, with smaller and less expensive outdoor cells and consumer telephone sets than current cellular service. Cable television operators are among the entrepreneurs for PCS. Also called PCN (Personal Communications Network).
See personal communications service.
Position change submission. Process by which clearing firms report the effect of the day's trades on previous or incoming positions. Clearing firms transmit this position information, along with spread position information, via a computer to computer link. Based on position and spread information, CME Clearing calculates each firm's open interest and performance bond requirements. (Frequently referred to as PCS.)