Wireless Communication

James Williams

Mrs. Singh

English 101

28 March 2008

Wireless Communications

Wireless communications are everywhere. People around the world regularly send and receive messages wirelessly, that is, transmitted through the air. Three types of wireless communications include wireless messaging services, wireless internet access points, and global positioning systems.

People use mobile phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices to access text messaging, instant messaging, and picture messaging services (Davis 34-42). Trough text messaging services, users aend and rceive short text messages, which usually consists of fewer than 300 characters. Wireless instant messaging is an Internet communications service that allows a wireless mobile device to exchange instant messaging with one or more mobile devices or online personal computers. Users send graphics, pictures, video clips, sound files, and short text messages with picture messaging services.

In many public locations, people connect to the Internet through a wireless Internet access point using mobile computers and devices. Two types of wireless Internet access points are hot spots and 3G networks. A hot spot is a wireless network that allows mobile users to check e-mail, browse the web, and access any Internet service вЂ" as long as their computers or devices have the appropriate wirelees capability. A 3G network, which uses cellular radio technology, enables users to connect to the Internet through a mobile phone or computer equipped with an appropriate PC card.

A global positioning system (GPS) is a navagation system that consists of one or more earth-based receivers that accept and analyze signals sent by satellites in order to determine the receiver’s

geographic location, according to Shelly and Cashman (How a GPS Works). A GPS reciever is a handheld, mountable, or embedded device that contains an antenna, a radio reciever, and a professor. Many mobile devices, such as mobile phones and PDA’s, have GPS capability built into the device.

Mobile users communicate wirelessly through wireless messaging services, wireless Internet access points, and global positioning systems. Anyone can take advantage of wireless communications using mobile computers and