Question

POCSAG stands for ________

(a) Post Office Code Standardization Advisory Group

(b) Post Office Common Standardization Advisory Group

(c) Pager Office Code Standardization Advisory Group

(d) Pager Office Common Standardization Advisory Group

This question was posed to me in examination.

This intriguing question comes from Bandwidth Requirement for PAM Transition in chapter Phase Locked Loop & Pulse Modulation of Analog Communications

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) Post Office Code Standardization Advisory Group

For explanation I would say: POCSAG stands for Post Office Code Standardization Advisory Group. It formulates a paging protocol, known as POCSAG protocol. This protocol is asynchronous in nature and is used to deliver data to pagers.