Natel

Natel ( notation as Brand Name: NATELÂ ) is a registered and used only in Switzerland Brand telecommunications company Swisscom under which the mobile offerings are marketed by Swisscom. Colloquially was " Natel " the generic name for " mobile phone " in all language regions of Switzerland.

Word origin

The word Natel is an abbreviation for " National Car telephone network " and first described the entire network technology. After loss of the telecommunications monopoly and with advent of other mobile operators the trademarked in capitals word of Swisscom have been used only for the mobile tariff offers and not for equipment or network technology. The only way that trademark protection might be implemented effectively.

As today's Swisscom - formerly PTT - for a long time had a legal monopoly in the telecommunications sector and therefore the only mobile provider was on the Swiss mobile market, was the term " Natel " in the whole of Switzerland in all language regions for genus name for « mobile phone».

The term " cell phone " was the introduction of the digital network (Natel -D) ( also since the 1960s by a dishwashing a major distributor and is ) as a designation for mobile devices yet completely unknown and non-existent. It was only much later and only in German-speaking Switzerland, but not in the Latin Switzerland, seeped from Germany here, as also Swisscom took care that the competition the name NATELÂ in capital letters from trademark protection reasons was not allowed to use, even for mobile devices. In the French speaking Switzerland has since the word " mobile ", established in the Italian-speaking " telefonino ".

Overall, the word " Natel " both within the standard German, as well as in French and Italian a Helvetismus dar.

History

1975 began the PTT's with the project, " mobile phone network for vehicles » supported by a Federal Council to boost the economy.

Analog networks:

  • NATELÂ A ( first subnetwork 1978)
  • NATELÂ B (1983 ), a still 12 kg heavy portable radio telephone in the trunk
  • NATELÂ C ( 1987), NMT system, analog voice transmission, switching and control information digitally

Digital Network:

  • NATELÂ D ( 1993), according to the GSM transmission standard from mid- 90s too, " text-based messages " (SMS)
  • Since 2001 GPRS standard
  • Since 2004 UMTS standard

Since the liberalization of the market in 1997, there are several mobile operators in Switzerland.

NATELÂ B device ( Indelco Compact 801 625 )

NATELÂ C unit ( Techno Phone PC 107-3 )

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