A Base Transceiver Station (BTS) (also referred to as the radio base station (RBS), node B (in 3G Networks) or, simply, the base station (BS)) is a (part of) equipment that facilitates wireless communication between user equipment (UE) and a network. UEs can be devices like mobile phones, computers with wireless Internet connectivity etc. The network can be one of the wireless communication technologies like WiMAX, CDMA, wireless local loop, Wi-Fi, or other wide area network (WAN) technology.
BTS can contain an equipment for encrypting and decrypting communications, spectrum filtering tools (band pass filters), etc. antennas may also be considered as components of BTS in general sense as they facilitate the functioning of BTS.
The term BTS is generally associated with mobile communication technologies like GSM and CDMA. In this context, a BTS forms part of the base station subsystem (BSS) developments for system management. BTS can several different frequencies and different sectors of the cell (in the case of sectorised base stations).
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