Base station is – according to the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR) – a "land station in the land mobile service."
A 1980s consumer-grade citizens' band radio (CB) base station
A cell tower near Thicketty, South Carolina.
A cell tower near Thicketty, South Carolina.
Two GSM mobile phone base station towers disguised as trees in Dublin, Ireland.
Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to mobile phones rather than fixed-location phones. Telephony is supposed to specifically point to a voice-only service or connection, though sometimes the line may blur.
Mobile phone tower
Mobile telephone antennas tower
Booth presenting the first Dutch vehicle or watercraft telephone ("Mobilofoon"), a collaboration of the Royal Dutch Automobile Club (KNAC), and the Netherlands Postal, Telegraph and Telephone (PTT) at the 1948 Amsterdam International Motor Show (AutoRAI).
Use of an early mobile phone in Austria, 1964