| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:10:12 +0100 |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:56:53AM -0500, paul@dpagin.net wrote:
> I don't even know what GSM is!
Global Signalling Mechanism?
(That's a complete guess.)
The point is that it's a standard for cell phone traffic that, at
least for what seemed like a long time, every country in the world
except for the US adhered to (meaning that international business
travelers who insisted on always having a mobile phone needed to
have one for "in the US" and one for "everywhere else on the
globe").
It comes up in Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon", fwiw.
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