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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
The Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) is the most popular
standard for mobile phone in the world. GSM service is used by over 2 billion people
across more than 212 countries and territories. Cell radius varies depending on antenna
height, antenna gain and propagation condition from a couple of hundred meters to a
several tens of kilometers. The growth in the internet industry is immense and along
with this trend wireless communication has rapidly gained wide acceptance, especially
the cellular system such as GSM . Mobile terminal will the major main machine
interface and not PC’s anymore. Mobile telephony, presently superseding wired
telephony, has become one of the most convenient information exchange tools since the
implementation of the GSM standard in the early 1990ies [1].
The Short Messages Services (SMS) in GSM allows amongst other the
transmissions of short text messages to mobile phones. In cases of an emergency the
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