GSM For Dummies



Welcome to GSM For Dummies. This website is designed to help people gain a greater understanding of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). There are a number of tutorials on the website. I will continue to update the site with new material and new tutorials. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions please feel free to contact me.


Here is a quick list of navigational links to the tutorials and the rest of the site. Or you can scroll down and read the full table of contents if you are looking for anything in particular. I recommend that you go through the tutorials in the order listed below, especially if you are new to GSM. But feel free to browse around anyway that you like.

Introduction to GSM
Network Architecture
Authentication and Encryption
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
Logical Channels
Timing Advances
GSM Events
Speech Encoding
Cell Selection and Reselection

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