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GSM - User Services


GSM offers much more than just voice telephony. Contact your local GSM network
operator to the specific services that you can avail.

GSM offers three basic types of services −

Telephony services or teleservices


Data services or bearer services
Supplementary services

Teleservices
The abilities of a Bearer Service are used by a Teleservice to transport data. These
services are further transited in the following ways −

Voice Calls

The most basic Teleservice supported by GSM is telephony. This includes full-rate
speech at 13 kbps and emergency calls, where the nearest emergency-service
provider is notified by dialing three digits.

Videotext and Facsmile

Another group of teleservices includes Videotext access, Teletex transmission,


Facsmile alternate speech and Facsmile Group 3, Automatic Facsmile Group, 3 etc.

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Short Text Messages

Short Messaging Service (SMS) service is a text messaging service that allows
sending and receiving text messages on your GSM mobile phone. In addition to
simple text messages, other text data including news, sports, financial, language,
and location-based data can also be transmitted.

Bearer Services
Data services or Bearer Services are used through a GSM phone. to receive and send
data is the essential building block leading to widespread mobile Internet access and
mobile data transfer. GSM currently has a data transfer rate of 9.6k. New
developments that will push up data transfer rates for GSM users are HSCSD (high
speed circuit switched data) and GPRS (general packet radio service) are now
available.

Supplementary Services
Supplementary services are additional services that are provided in addition to
teleservices and bearer services. These services include caller identification, call
forwarding, call waiting, multi-party conversations, and barring of outgoing
(international) calls, among others. A brief description of supplementary services is
given here −

Conferencing − It allows a mobile subscriber to establish a multiparty


conversation, i.e., a simultaneous conversation between three or more
subscribers to setup a conference call. This service is only applicable to
normal telephony.
Call Waiting − This service notifies a mobile subscriber of an incoming call
during a conversation. The subscriber can answer, reject, or ignore the
incoming call.

Call Hold − This service allows a subscriber to put an incoming call on hold
and resume after a while. The call hold service is applicable to normal
telephony.

Call Forwarding − Call Forwarding is used to divert calls from the original
recipient to another number. It is normally set up by the subscriber himself. It
can be used by the subscriber to divert calls from the Mobile Station when the
subscriber is not available, and so to ensure that calls are not lost.

Call Barring − Call Barring is useful to restrict certain types of outgoing calls
such as ISD or stop incoming calls from undesired numbers. Call barring is a

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flexible service that enables the subscriber to conditionally bar calls.

Number Identification − There are following supplementary services


related to number identification −

Calling Line Identification Presentation − This service displays the


telephone number of the calling party on your screen.
Calling Line Identification Restriction − A person not wishing their
number to be presented to others subscribes to this service.

Connected Line Identification Presentation − This service is


provided to give the calling party the telephone number of the person
to whom they are connected. This service is useful in situations such
as forwarding's where the number connected is not the number dialed.

Connected Line Identification Restriction − There are times when


the person called does not wish to have their number presented and so
they would subscribe to this person. Normally, this overrides the
presentation service.

Malicious Call Identification − The malicious call identification


service was provided to combat the spread of obscene or annoying
calls. The victim should subscribe to this service, and then they could
cause known malicious calls to be identified in the GSM network, using
a simple command.

Advice of Charge (AoC) − This service was designed to give the subscriber
an indication of the cost of the services as they are used. Furthermore, those
service providers who wish to offer rental services to subscribers without their
own SIM can also utilize this service in a slightly different form. AoC for data
calls is provided on the basis of time measurements.

Closed User Groups (CUGs) − This service is meant for groups of


subscribers who wish to call only each other and no one else.

Unstructured supplementary services data (USSD) − This allows


operator-defined individual services.

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