cellular radio - radio telephone linked to a main telephone system, which uses a network of stations, each covering a certain area, to provide a service over a large area (the radio is switched from one station to another as it moves from area to area); cellular service - changing from one transceiver station to another as a cellular radio or cell phone user moves from area to area
For the purposes of this Directive, a public pan-European cellular digital land-based mobile communications service shall mean a public cellular radio service provided in each of the Member States to a common specification, which includes the feature that all voice signals are encoded into binary digits prior to radio transmission, and where users provided with a service in one Member State can also gain access to the service in any other Member State.
