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Cell Global Identity

Cell Global Identity (CGI) is a standard identifier for mobile phones cells, providing means to geographically
locate connected mobile phones. If a cell phone is connected to a GSM network then the position of that
particular cell phone can be determined using CGI of the cell which is covering that cell phone. There is a series
of related technologies that were developed based on CGI that enhances the location precision: Cell Global
Identity with Timing Advance (CGI+TA), Enhanced CGI (E-CGI), Cell ID for WCDMA, Uplink Time Difference Of
Arrival (U-TDOA) and Any Time Interrogation (ATI), and the high accuracy terminal based method Assisted Global
Positioning System (A-GPS). [1]

References[edit]
1. Jump up ^ "Location Based Services System overview" . ERICSSON. 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-25.

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Cellular network standards
0G (radio telephones)
1G
2G
GSM/3GPP family

GSM
CSD

3GPP2 family

AMPS family
Other

cdmaOne (TIA/EIA/IS-95 and ANSI-J-STD 008)

2G transitional
(2.5G, 2.75G)

GSM/3GPP family
3GPP2 family

CDMA2000 1X (TIA/EIA/IS-2000)
1X Advanced

Other

WiDEN

3G (IMT-2000)
3G transitional
(3.5G, 3.75G, 3.9G)

3GPP family
3GPP2 family

CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A (TIA/EIA/IS-856-A)

EV-DO Revision B (TIA/EIA/IS-856-B)
DO Advanced

IEEE family

4G
(IMT Advanced)
5G
conceptual (currently under formal research & development)

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