People normally says “Oh, that tower is the XXX’s BTS” when they see telecommunication tower with an antenna in the top of it. In a holiday trip, kids sometime ask to their parents when they catch that high building in their eyes during the trip. “Mama, what is that?”. Their mama probably will answers like this. “Oh my dear boy, that is XXX’s BTS. Something that transmits radio signal to our cellphone so that we can get connected to the mobile system.“. “Oh mama, what is mobile system?“.. Hehe.. And the kids get more confused. The point is not that confusing kids, man. But the mommy. Yes, is she right to give that kind of answer?
I don’t think so.
Most people only know the terms BTS as a term only. A word, with some explanation like what the mommy says before. They never see what the telecom engineer thinks BTS is. The real BTS, not only the term, but also physically. Not that things that you see outside, but inside the system.
I won’t give my thoughts of the term BTS here. Mostly because I haven’t taken Cellular Communication System subject in my class (actually, next semester I will take it). I am just somehow afraid that if my lecturer sees my term-explanation here and finds out that I do it wrong, it will impact to my grade next semester. Hehe.. Just some silly thought.
Okay, enough for the basa-basi things. Here is what I want to share in this post. Below, you will see what the real BTS is look like. Not that tower, not that antenna, although antenna is a part of the BTS system, it’s just a part not the entire sytem. Here is the fact. So, that mommy is wrong from the perspective of telecom engineer when answering to the kids like that, rite?
But one thing raises in my mind then. So if the mommy is wrong, what the mommy should answer? I think this answer is most appropiate for me. “Oh my dear boy, don’t ask. Just relax on your seat and eat your snack. You will get the answer soon you enter the university and take the telecommunication major. For now, just see that tower as a tower who gives us cellular signal.”.. Oh, not so good also, because the kids probably will ask again.” Mama, what is cellular“.. And the things will be get more complicated. Hehehe… Fortunately, I am not the mommy. Maybe in the next years in my life, I become the Daddy who drives the car and laughs as my wife answer the question from my boy.
However, it is my personal opinion. CMIIW.
What about you?
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