Fail This Cell Phone Technology Trivia, You're Living in 2000!
1.
What is the time spent on a cell phone call known as?
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Airtime
2.
What kind of readout contains both letters and numbers?
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Alphanumeric
3.
What does your signal strength show?
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Bandwidth
4.
Which term describes communication between two points?
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Channel
5.
What is the service area for a ground station called?
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Coverage
6.
What is another term for interference?
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Crosstalk
7.
What's the link from a satellite to a station on earth?
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Downlink
8.
What allows a cellphone to handle two frequencies?
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Dual Band
9.
What feature allows use of analog and digital networks?
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Dual Mode
10.
How is a phone signal kept from unauthorized readers?
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Encryption
11.
What kind of cable uses light to send messages?
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Fiber Optic
12.
Mobile phones use which device for additional storage?
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Flash Memory
13.
What term is used for the level of radio waves?
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Frequency
14.
What signaling method varies the carrier frequency?
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Frequency Modulation
15.
What is a node that connects two different networks?
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Gateway
16.
What allows many networks to work together?
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Interoperability
17.
What battery has a longer life cycle than most others?
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Lithium-Ion Battery
18.
What "talks" to radio technologies and protocols?
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Middleware
19.
"NiCad" is a brand-name of what product?
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Nickel Cadmium Battery
20.
What powers your cell phone?
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NiMH
21.
What is the opposite of "peak hour"?
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Off-Peak
22.
Dividing the bandwith is called what?
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Partitioning
23.
What is the percent of cell carrier users in a market?
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Penetration
24.
What allows you to get downloads to your phone?
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Pull SMS
25.
What technology allows users to purchase ringtones?
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Push SMS
26.
Emission of energy through space or material is called?
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Radiation
27.
What retransmits radio signals in a new direction?
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Repeater
28.
What technology lets a foreign phone work in the U.S.?
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Roaming
29.
What messages must be no longer than 160 characters?
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SMS
30.
A "Subscriber Identity Module" is commonly called what?
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SIM Card
31.
What is inserted into phones for international roaming?
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Smart Card
32.
In transmitting, what is a range of frequencies called?
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Spectrum
33.
The time a mobile phone can sit on idle is called what?
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Standby Time
34.
What is another term for telecommunications?
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Telephony
35.
What equipment handles reception of radio signals?
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Transceiver
36.
What is the use of three points to locate a caller?
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Triangulation
37.
What transmits signals from Earth to satellites?
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Uplink
38.
What generation is EDGE technology?
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2G
39.
What is used to transmit bursts of data?
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Frame Relay
40.
A radio wave passing one point in one second is what?
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Hertz
41.
On the periodic table, what does "Ir" stand for?
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Iridium
42.
Multiple signals can be merged by what process?
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Multiplexing
43.
Which method makes sure phone numbers are conserved?
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Number Pooling
44.
What code is used with a SIM card to complete a call?
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PIN
45.
What electromatic wavelengths are used with radios?
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Radio Frequency
46.
What is a broadcast sent to many sites in a network?
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Simulcast
47.
What key on a cell phone is usually a dot or short bar?
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Soft Key
48.
What is the name of the science behind "GPS" systems?
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Telematics
49.
What generation of cell phone technology is the iPhone?
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Third (3G)
50.
What cell phone can operate at 800, 900 and 1800 MHz?
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Tri-Band
51.
What is a network that is shared by many on few lines?
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Trunking
52.
What is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda?
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Wavelength
53.
What is EM energy in the 3kHz-300GHz frequency range called?
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Radio Waves
54.
What band of the electromagnetic spectrum is used to communicate with space shuttles?
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S-Band
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