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wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/data/bandplans/pcsband.pdf

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Posted by saqlain231

Digital PCS (otherwise known as ANSI-136) is one of today’s most successful TDMA cellular standards, offering cellular customers superior network capacity coupled with advanced features such as privacy, longer battery life, caller identification, message waiting, and much more. Now you can unravel the complex engineering details behind the fast-moving ANSI-136 standard with this one-of-a-kind new book.

The book contains over 250 illustrations, defines current terminology, and explains complex concepts in a comprehensive, detailed manner that is factual, accurate, and easy to understand. It is an expertly authored guidebook that provides you with the technical foundation for understanding how satellite applications are implemented through the design of the space and ground segments.

Whether you’re an engineer responsible for developing new Digital PCS products and services, or a marketing professional who needs to broaden your general selling knowledge of Digital PCS, you’ll value this expertly written guide that uses plain, easy-to-understand language to:

* Explain how the ANSI-136 compliant mobile phone operates and how it works together with the cellular network to allow customers to send and receive calls, and obtain advanced services such as Short Message Service

* Strengthen your understanding of the ANSI-136 standardization process

* Bridge the gap between the ANSI-136 standard and actual implementation of ANSI-136 by describing network parameter settings, network optimization techniques, and equipment testing

* Identify and describe the teleservice and data capabilities of ANSI-136

* Outline the modifications made to ANSI-136 that allow it to operate in the 1900 MHz PCS band

* Increase your knowledge of the ANSI-41 standard and how the network elements interact to help you better understand how the entire Digital PCS system works

* Examine industry activities currently underway to help make ANSI-136 a truly global, third-generation cellular system

More than one hundred easy-to-follow illustrations and a minimum of mathematical equations make this book comprehensible to a wide range of readers, including design engineers who need to understand the individual components of the Digital PCS system, RF performance engineers responsible for setting Digital PCS network parameters, and technology planners and product developers. It’s also a valuable tool for technology sales professionals who need to explain the benefits of Digital PCS to prospective clients.

Contents: The Digital PCS Family Tree. Advantages of Digital PCS. The Digital PCS Family of Standards. Layer 1 -- The Digital PCS Physical Layer. Layer 2 -- The Digital PCS Data Link Layer. Layer 3 -- The Digital PCS Network Layer. Network Architecture and Intersystem Operation. Mobile Station Operation. Reselection and Hierarchical Cell Structures. Mobile Sleep Mode. Voice Services. Teleservices. Circuit-Switches Data Services. Non-Public Services. Special Considerations for 1900 MHz Operation. Authentication, Privacy, and Encryption. Network Parameter Settings. Equipment Testing. Towards Global TDMA. The Future of Digital PCS.

Cameron Coursey is a Member of the Technical Staff at SBC Technology Resources, Inc., a division of SBC Communications, Inc., where he provides implementation support and participates in standards activities and industry forums related to ANSI-136. Mr. Coursey earned his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and is a member of the IEEE.
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Posted by waqasahmad

1850-1910 and 1930-1990 MHz band

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Posted by HamidAliKhan

link below tell you about whole band plan
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=service_bandplan&id=broadband_pcs

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Posted by Hash007

From 1995 to 1997 the FCC licensed the so called PCS or Personal Communication Service spectrum, the area around 1900 MHz and some additional radio space around 900 Mhz. It's here where most TDMA based GSM systems are, as well as the CDMA based IS-95 system.

The FCC calls the two PCS spectrum blocks broadband and narrowband frequencies. To make things confusing, PCS licenses differ in bandwidth size from cellular licenses. PCS operators can have two different sized licenses: 30 MHz and 10 MHz, of which they are allowed to put together. Six PCS licenses exist for each market. It's said that "the real advantage for PCS is that the 30 MHz and 10 MHz licenses are contiguous, which cuts down on the cost of infrastructure and subscriber equipment. So, the advantages for PCS are more capacity, lower infrastructure cost, and lower subscriber costs." Speaking of the Personal Communications Service, the FCC divided it into two sections, which we should look at now.

6.The PCS band
a. Narrowband

Lower in the spectrum than wideband PCS, Narrowband PCS uses narrower frequency blocks. Less room means N-PCS is better suited for advanced paging services. Narrowband's spectrum falls into these frequency ranges: 901-902MHz, 930-931 MHz, and 940-941 MHz

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Posted by sagitraz