Preface

There are three aspects of this dictionary which we would like to cover in this preface: the scope of the dictionary, and its target readers; the layout of the entries; authors’ acknowledgement for the source of some of the material.

We anticipate that the readers of this dictionary will either be relative newcomers to telecommunications, who wish to have a reference at hand to look up terms which they meet during their study or work, or telecommunications engineers who are specialists in a given area and wish to have information on a wider range of topics. With this twofold readership in mind the content of the dictionary has been selected to cover all the relevant telecommunications topics met with in industry today. Extensive use is ...

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