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- AOA
- Angle of arrival, a calculation in mobile positioning systems
- 3GPP
- Third generation partnership project
- AOC
- Advice of charge
- ARPU
- Average revenue per user
- ASP
- Application service provider
- B2B
- Business to business
- B2C
- Business to consumer
- BACKBONE
- The heart of the telecoms network that carries the most traffic
- BANDWIDTH
- Transmission capacity
- BIT
- Binary digit: the smallest unit of data
- BLUETOOTH
- Device to device wireless connection technology
- BPM
- Business to process management
- BPO
- Business process outsourcing
- BRI
- Basic Rate Interface
- BSS
- Business support systems
- BWA
- Broadband wireless access
- CALA
- Caribbean & Latin America
- CAMEL
- Customised applications for mobile network enhanced logic. A protocol for mobile roaming agreements
- CARRIER PRE-SELECTION (CPS)
- the facility offered to customers which allows them to opt for certain defined classes of call to be carried by an operator, selected in advance (and having a contract with the customer), without having to dial a routing prefix or follow any other different procedure to invoke such routing.
- CDMA
- Code division multiple access
- CDR
- Call detail record. Basis of voice billing
- CEM
- Customer experience management
- CIM
- Customer intelligence / Interaction management
- CLI
- Calling Line Identity (Phone number!)
- CLIP
- Calling Line Identity Presentation
- CLIR
- Calling Line Identity Restriction
- CMS
- Content management systems, or converged multimedia service
- CP
- Content provider
- CPS
- Carrier Pre-selection
- CRM
- Customer relationship management
- CSP
- Communications service provider
- CSV
- Comma Separated Value
- CTIA
- Cellular telecommunications industry association
- D2C
- Direct to consumer
- DAB
- Digital audio broadcast
- DAM
- Digital asset management
- DDI
- Direct Dial In
- DIRECT ACCESS
- the situation where a customer is directly connected to a telecommunications operator by a wire, fibre-optic or radio link to connect that customer to the public telecommunication network.
- DRM
- Digital rights management
- DSL- DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LOOP
- A family of technologies generically referred to as DSL, or xDSL, capable of transforming ordinary phone lines (also known as
- DTH
- Direct to home
- DVB-H
- Digital video broadcast - handheld (digital TV)
- EDGE
- Enhanced data rate for GSM evolution
- EDR
- Event detail records. Basis of data service billing
- EMEA
- Europe, Middle East & Africa
- EMP
- Equivalence Management Platform (BT's 21cn provisioning platform)
- EV-DO
- Evolution - Data optimised communications
- FMS
- Fraud management system
- FRAME RELAY SERVICE
- a packet switched data service (see packet service) providing for the interconnection of Local Area Networks (LANS) and access to host computers at a higher speed (up to 2 Mbit/s) than those provided by an X.25 service.
- FREEPHONE
- automated reversed charge mechanism whereby caller pays nothing while company receiving call pays all call charges and associated costs (line rental, enhanced services)
- FWA
- Fixed wireless access
- GPRS
- General packet radio system
- GPS
- Global positioning system
- GSM
- Global system for mobile communications
- GUI
- Graphical user interface
- HSDPA
- High speed downlink packet access
- HSPA
- High speed packet access
- HSUPA
- High speed uplink packet access
- IDA
- Indirect Access
- IM
- Instant messaging
- IMAP
- Integrated multi service access platform
- IMEI
- International Mobile Equipment Identifier.
- I-MODE
- Japanese originated mobile internet platform
- IMS
- IP multimedia subsystem
- IMSI
- International Mobile Subscriber Identity
- IN (P)
- Intelligent Network (Platform)
- INDIRECT ACCESS
- the situation where the customer is connected to a telecommunications operator by dialling a routing prefix code before the number dialled, this can be done either through programming of a telephone system or installing router boxes.
- INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK (ISDN)
- a network based on the existing digital PSTN which provides digital links to customers and end to end digital connectivity between them. ISDN2 provides a maximum bandwidth of 128kbit/s.
- IP
- Internet protocol
- IPM
- Intelligent policy management
- IPR
- Intellectual property rights
- ISP
- Internet service provider
- ITIL
- Information technology infrastructure library
- ITV
- Interactive television
- IVR
- Interactive voice response
- JAVA
- Java, sun programming language
- LBS
- Location based services
- LCR
- Least Cost Routing
- LEASED LINES
- (also known as private circuits) a fixed unswitched communication link between two points.
- LOCAL CALL FEE ACCESS
- Calls to non-geographic NTS services for which calling customers are charged at the local call rate
- M2M
- Machine to machine
- MAP
- Mobile applications protocol
- MDN
- Mobile directory number
- MEXE
- Mobile execution environment
- MG
- Mobile gateway
- MGW
- Media Gateway
- MIN
- Mobile identity number
- MINDS
- Mobile information & news data services for 3G
- MISP
- Mobile internet service provider
- MLBS
- Mobile location based services
- MMA
- Mobile marketing association
- MMC
- Multimedia card
- MMS
- Multimedia messaging service
- MNO
- Mobile network operator
- MOCO
- Mobile content
- MP3/4
- MPEG audio layer ¾ compression technologies
- MSISDN
- The Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network
- MSP
- Mobile service provider
- MVNE
- Mobile virtual network enabler
- MVNO
- Mobile virtual network operator
- NE
- BLANK
- NGN
- Next generation network
- NGN/NTS/SRS
- Non-geographic Number/Number Translation Services/Special Rate Services (the 08 and 03 family)
- OCB
- Outbound Call Barring
- OMA
- Open mobile alliance
- OS
- Operating system
- OSS
- Operating support systems
- OTA
- Over the air
- PAN
- Personal area network
- PCS
- Personal communications systems
- PDA
- Personal digital assistant
- PDC
- Personal digital cellular. Japanese cellular standard
- PREMIUM RATE SERVICE (PRS)
- services, including recorded information and live conversation, run by independent service providers. All calls to these companies are charged at a higher rate than ordinary calls to cover the companies' costs in providing the content of the call and the operator's cost for the special network facilities needed.
- PRI
- Premium rate SMS
- PSMS
- BLANK
- PSTN/POTS
- Public Switch Telephony Network/Plain Old Telephony Service
- QOS
- Quality of service
- QUAD PLAY
- Combined video, voice, TV and data services
- RAS
- Revenue assurance system
- REAL TIME
- No perceived delay in communications
- RM
- Revenue management
- ROI
- Return on investment
- SDK
- Software development kit
- SIM
- Subscriber identity module
- SIP
- Session initiation protocol
- SLA
- Service level agreement
- SLG
- Service Level Guarantee
- SMS
- Short message service
- SMSC
- Short message service centre
- SOC
- System on chip
- SP
- Service provider
- SPAM
- Junk messages. Becoming a mobile phenomenon
- SQM
- Service quality management
- STP
- Signalling transfer point
- TBR
- Time Break Recall
- TCO
- Total cost of ownership
- TDM
- Time Division Multiplexing
- TRIPLE PLAY
- Combined vide, voice and data services
- TTM
- Time to market
- UI
- User interface
- UMA
- Unlicensed mobile access
- UMTS
- Universal mobile telecommunications system
- USSD
- Unstructured supplementary service data
- UTRAN
- UMTS terrestrial radio access network
- VAS
- Value added services
- VPN – VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK
- these are used by a company or private group to make inter-site connections either for telephone speech or data as if there were dedicated leased lines between these sites. The equipment used is located within the public telecommunications operators’ premises and forms an integral part of the public network but is software- partitioned to allow for a genuinely private network
- WAP
- Wireless application protocol
- WCDMA
- Wideband code division service provider
- WISP
- Wireless internet service provider
- WLL
- Wireless local loop
- WLR
- Wholesale Line Rental
- WLS
- Wireless location service