Data over normal GSM call

[Harald Welte]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:17:19AM +0200, Stefano Cavallari wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008 21:00:34 Harald Welte wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:57:02PM -0500, Hans L wrote:
> [...]
> > AFAIR, the DTMF key press is encoded and send over the Um (air)
> > interface to the BTS/BSC/MSC and then in the end converted into
> > actual audible sounds.
> >
> > Please see Page 22 of http://www.chu.edu.tw/~lhyen/wc/gsm.pdf for a
> > graphical illustration how this works.
> 
> This imply that there is a data channel available. Can you trasmit anything 
> else that DTMF? What is the bandwidth of this channel?

no, there is no data channel.  The START/STOP DTMF messages are part of
the layer 3 signalling messages (sent over a signalling channel that is
also used for call setup/teardown).

also, that signalling channel is between the MSC and the telephone.


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