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    Active mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants measures those with internet connection via smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Smartphones have overtaken earlier mobile systems usage in developed nations, accounting for around 50% of mobile phones in developing areas. Feature phones provide basic calling, texting, and multimedia capabilities, while smartphones use mobile operating systems and more advanced functionality. Mobile phones connect to cell towers divided into cells using different frequencies to avoid interference, with towers interconnected and additional towers added temporarily in high traffic areas. Cells reuse frequencies not in use by neighboring cells to increase simultaneous call capacity which is further increased through digital networks allowing multiple calls per frequency.

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    Active mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants measures those with internet connection via smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Smartphones have overtaken earlier mobile systems usage in developed nations, accounting for around 50% of mobile phones in developing areas. Feature phones provide basic calling, texting, and multimedia capabilities, while smartphones use mobile operating systems and more advanced functionality. Mobile phones connect to cell towers divided into cells using different frequencies to avoid interference, with towers interconnected and additional towers added temporarily in high traffic areas. Cells reuse frequencies not in use by neighboring cells to increase simultaneous call capacity which is further increased through digital networks allowing multiple calls per frequency.

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    Mobile Phone Types

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    Active mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants measures those with internet connection via smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Smartphones have overtaken earlier mobile systems usage in developed nations, accounting for around 50% of mobile phones in developing areas. Feature phones provide basic calling, texting, and multimedia capabilities, while smartphones use mobile operating systems and more advanced functionality. Mobile phones connect to cell towers divided into cells using different frequencies to avoid interference, with towers interconnected and additional towers added temporarily in high traffic areas. Cells reuse frequencies not in use by neighboring cells to increase simultaneous call capacity which is further increased through digital networks allowing multiple calls per frequency.

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    Active mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants. [18]

    Smartphone
    Main article: Smartphone
    Smartphones have a number of distinguishing features. The International Telecommunication
    Union measures those with Internet connection, which it calls Active Mobile-Broadband
    subscriptions (which includes tablets, etc.). In the developed world, smartphones have now
    overtaken the usage of earlier mobile systems. However, in the developing world, they account for
    around 50% of mobile telephony.

    Feature phone
    Main article: Feature phone
    Feature phone is a term typically used as a retronym to describe mobile phones which are limited in
    capabilities in contrast to a modern smartphone. Feature phones typically provide voice
    calling and text messaging functionality, in addition to basic multimedia and Internet capabilities, and
    other services offered by the user's wireless service provider. A feature phone has additional
    functions over and above a basic mobile phone which is only capable of voice calling and text
    messaging.[19][20] Feature phones and basic mobile phones tend to use a proprietary, custom-
    designed software and user interface. By contrast, smartphones generally use a mobile operating
    system that often shares common traits across devices.

    Infrastructure
    Main articles: Cellular network and WiFi
    Mobile phones communicate with cell towers that are placed to give coverage across a telephone
    service area, which is divided up into 'cells'. Each cell uses a different set of frequencies from
    neighboring cells, and will typically be covered by three towers placed at different locations. The cell
    towers are usually interconnected to each other and the phone network and the internet by wired
    connections. Due to bandwidth limitations each cell will have a maximum number of cell phones it
    can handle at once. The cells are therefore sized depending on the expected usage density, and
    may be much smaller in cities. In that case much lower transmitter powers are used to avoid
    broadcasting beyond the cell.
    In order to handle the high traffic, multiple towers can be set up in the same area (using different
    frequencies). This can be done permanently or temporarily such as at special events like at the
    Super Bowl, Taste of Chicago, State Fair, NYC New Year's Eve, hurricane hit cities, etc. where cell
    phone companies will bring a truck with equipment to host the abnormally high traffic with a portable
    cell.
    Cellular can greatly increase the capacity of simultaneous wireless phone calls. While a phone
    company for example, has a license to 1,000 frequencies, each cell must use unique frequencies
    with each call using one of them when communicating. Because cells only slightly overlap, the same
    frequency can be reused. Example cell one uses frequency 1–500, next door cell uses frequency
    501–1,000, next door can reuse frequency 1–500. Cells one and three are not "touching" and do not
    overlap/communicate so each can reuse the same frequencies. [citation needed]
    This is even more greatly increased when phone companies implemented digital networks. With
    digital, one frequency can host multiple simultaneous calls increasing capacity even more.
    As a phone moves around, a phone will "hand off" - automatically disconnect and reconnect to the
    tower of another cell that gives the best reception.
    Additionally, short-range Wi-Fi infrastructure is often used by smartphones as much as possible as it
    offloads traffic from cell networks on to local area networks.

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