There are 2 popular GSM methods.
1. GSM-900
2. GSM-1800
GSM-900 uses 890 - 915 MHz to send information from the Mobile Station to the Base
Transceiver Station (uplink) and 935 - 960 MHz for the other direction (downlink), providing 124 RF channels (channel numbers 1 to 124) spaced at 200 kHz. Duplex spacing of 45 MHz is used.

→ In CDMA, multiple users share a 1.25 MHz channel by using orthogonal spreading codes (Walsh codes)
→ IS-95a standard designed for AMPS cellular band
→ Each cellular provider is allocated 25 MHz spectrum and ten 1.25-MHz CDMA duplex channels if A AMPS Band provider, 9 if B band provider

→ Interim Standard 95 (IS-95) was the first ever CDMA-based digital cellular technology.
→ The IS-95 standards describe an air interface, a set of protocols used between mobile units and the network.
→ IS-95 is widely described as a three-layer stack, where L1 corresponds to the physical (PHY) layer, L2 refers to the Media Access Control (MAC) and Link-Access Control (LAC) sublayers, and L3 to the call-processing state machine.

A telephone conference call is an example of same time / different place type of communications.