GSM
About GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications, specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, launched the digital cellular age when the first network opened in Finland in 1991. It introduced the SIM card, international roaming and SMS, and GSM networks still run as fallback layers worldwide.
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