Acronyms and Abbreviations

3G Third Generation
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
3GPP2 Third Generation Partnership Project 2
AMR Adaptive Multi-rate
AMR-NB AMR Narrowband
AMR-WB AMR Wideband
A.N. Assigned Number
APN Access Point Name
ARCH Architecture, OMA Group
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
ARPANET ARPA Wide Are Networking
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AT Attention (AT Commands)
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BARG Billing and Accounting Roaming Group, GSMA Group
B.E. Binary Encoding
BIFS Binary Format for Scenes
BNF Backus-naur Form
bpm Beats Per Minute
BSC Base Station Controller
BSS Base Station Subsystem
BTS Base Transceiver Station
CC/PP Composite Capability/preference Profiles
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDR Charging Data Record
CEK Content Encryption Key
CEPT Conference Europeenne Des Postes Et Telecommunications
CIF Common Intermediate Format
CLI Command Line Interface
CLP Command Line Protocol
CN Core Network
CO Cache Operation
CPI Capability and Preference Information
CR Change Request
CSCF Call Session Control Function
CSD Circuit Switched Data
CSP Client Server Protocol
CSPDN Circuit Switched Public Data Network
CWTS China Wireless Telecommunication Standard
DCF DRM Content Format
DF Dedicated File
DID Document Identifier
DIG Developer Interest Group, OMA Group
DM Device Management, OMA Group
DNS Domain Name Server ...

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