You may have seen people talking while walking, working on the buses and trains, and always in contact with others.
This is because of mobile phones. You may already have one as well. So, though you have already used one, do you know how a mobile phone works or connects huge distances within just a few seconds? So, let us discuss how a mobile phone works below.
What Is A mobile phone?
A mobile phone is a portable device connecting to a telecommunications network to receive and transmit various data types, including voice and video.
Though the earliest generation of mobile phones could receive and make calls, today’s phones can do much more, like accommodating games, web browsers, cameras, navigation systems, video players, and many more.
Mobile phones are mainly radio telephones that can route their calls through a specific network of masts linked to the main network of the public telephone. Here’s how they actually work.
How does A mobile phone work?
Mobile phones use wireless technology:
A mobile phone can send and receive calls without any wire connection. How does it work like this?
It uses electromagnetic radio waves to send and receive sound that can easily travel down wires.
Whether you are walking down the street, sitting at your home, or even riding in a vehicle, you are located within the sea of electromagnetic waves. Radio and TV programs, cordless phone calls, signals from radio-controlled cars, and even wireless doorbells, all usually work with the help of electromagnetic energy.
It is an undulating pattern of magnetism and electricity that can zip and zap invisibly through space at the speed of light, which is 186000 miles per second. The networks of mobile phones are now one of the fastest-growing sources of this powerful electromagnetic energy in the world around us.
How Do Mobile Phone Calls Travel From One Place To Another?
Let us discuss the procedure in several steps below:
When you speak on a mobile phone, a very small microphone present in the handset can convert the sounds of your voice into a corresponding up-and-down structure of electrical signals.
A microchip located inside the phone can turn these signals into several strings of numbers.
Those numbers are then packed into a specific radio wave and can beam out from the phone’s antenna.
Those radio waves can race through the air at a speed that is similar to the speed of light until it reaches the nearest mobile phone mast.
The mobile phone mast can receive and pass the signals to its base station.
The station effectively coordinates the incident inside the local part of a mobile phone network called a cell.
From the base station, those cells are routed toward their destination. Calls made from one mobile phone to another on the same network can travel to their destination; this can be done by being routed to the nearest base station and eventually to that phone itself.
Calls made to a mobile phone on a different network may follow a lengthier path. They may need to be routed to the main telephone before reaching their last or final destination.
Therefore, we have learned some interesting facts about mobile phones in this article. Moreover, for some other exciting facts, you can see our website.
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