A small mobile phone base station connected to the phone network via the Internet, typically used to improve mobile phone reception indoors and considered to be smaller than a microcell.
the system uses low-power picocells throughout the building
Example sentencesExamples
Does the picocell contain a jammer which blocks out these other cells?
The system uses a small picocell in the plane's cabin.
The gear will be very little more than a simple picocell on board the aircraft.
The signals from the mobile telephone went first to a "picocell" inside the aircraft, next to a computer server that routed them through the satellite communications network to the ground, and finally to ground-based telephone networks.
The systems work by installing a base station—called a picocell—on the aircraft itself.
Definition of picocell in US English:
picocell
nounˈpēkōˌsel
A small mobile phone base station connected to the phone network via the Internet, typically used to improve mobile phone reception indoors and considered to be smaller than a microcell.
the system uses low-power picocells throughout the building
Example sentencesExamples
The system uses a small picocell in the plane's cabin.
The signals from the mobile telephone went first to a "picocell" inside the aircraft, next to a computer server that routed them through the satellite communications network to the ground, and finally to ground-based telephone networks.
Does the picocell contain a jammer which blocks out these other cells?
The gear will be very little more than a simple picocell on board the aircraft.
The systems work by installing a base station—called a picocell—on the aircraft itself.