Glossary entry (derived from question below)
français term or phrase:
numéro de GSM
anglais translation:
mobile (telephone) number [GB] / cell(phone) number [US]
français term
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Translating full-time since 1998
Native in: anglais (Variant: British) 
Works in: espagnol vers anglais
numéro de GSM
The source text makes dozens of references to the term "número de GSM", however, in the target it has been translated variously as "GSM number" and "mobile phone number", possibly by more than one translator.
Not living in a French speaking country myself, I'd just like to know if "GSM" is currently synonymous in French-speaking countries with "mobile" or "mobile phone" in English or whether the source text was attempting to be more specific.
Which do you suggest I use "GSM number" or "mobile [phone] number"?
| 5 +5 | mobile (telephone) number / cell(phone) number |
Tony M
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Proposed translations
mobile (telephone) number / cell(phone) number
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Note added at 10 minutes (2017-04-13 16:06:51 GMT)
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And presumably therefore also in Luxembourg!
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Note added at 12 minutes (2017-04-13 16:08:14 GMT)
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I think GSM may also be used in American English, but AFAIK it is not widely used in EN-GB.
| Thanks, Tony, just the info I was looking for! |
Reference comments
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications - second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see GSM (disambiguation).
The GSM logo is used to identify compatible handsets and equipment. The dots symbolize three clients in the home network and one roaming client.
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications, originally Groupe Spécial Mobile) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones, first deployed in Finland in December 1991. As of 2014 it has become the de facto global standard for mobile communications – with over 90% market share, operating in over 219 countries and territories.[3]
2G networks developed as a replacement for first generation (1G) analog cellular networks, and the GSM standard originally described as a digital, circuit-switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony. This expanded over time to include data communications, first by circuit-switched transport, then by packet data transport via GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution or EGPRS).
Subsequently, the 3GPP developed third-generation (3G) UMTS standards followed by fourth-generation (4G) LTE Advanced standards, which do not form part of the ETSI GSM standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
2G networks are slowly become "legacy technology", even the next generation 3G is also slowly getting on its way out, 4G is rapidly spreading and 5G is already in the horizon.
"GSM" has NOTHING to do with the fact that in USA some mobile phones have a fixed phone number incorporated in them, while in Europe the "identity" of the mobile phone has always been determined by a separate SIM card (initially the size of a credit card!), whichever generation the phone/mobile network happens to be. Mobile phone for 3G and 4G networks (IOW not 2G thus not GSM phones/networks) ALSO have SIM cards.
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... 5G is already on the horizon.
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