71.   The waiter returns the terminal to its base station, which connects to a computer network, authorizes the transaction and prints a receipt.

72.   The Vox.Link combination charger and base station can be used with one-line or multiline phones.

73.   They are used by telecommunications companies at their cellular base stations in conjunction with receivers that get time signals from GPS satellites.

74.   These systems let you park the base station anywhere in your home or small office, even someplace inaccessible.

75.   They can be hard-wired, via Ethernet cable, to an AirPort base station.

76.   This wireless Ethernet standard uses radio signals to send data at very fast rates from connected base stations to computers, including hand-held ones with wireless capability.

77.   Unlike cellular phones, which operate on their own wireless networks, cordless phones require a nearby base station that is attached to a conventional phone line.

78.   Up to eight wireless handsets could communicate with the base station, each with access to all four phone circuits.

79.   Unlike cellular phones, which require an expensive central base station, PHS phones use the same technology as cordless phones to connect callers to old-fashioned wire lines.

80.   When that happens, the base station sends a message over the cellular signaling channel.