Glossary of Terms used in the Mobile Communications Industry worldwide.
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- 1G
- 2G
- 3G
- Blocked SIM card
- Bluetooth
- BPS (Bits Per Second)
- Call Barring
- Call Divert
- Call forwarding
- Call Restriction
- Call Transfer
- Call Waiting, Call Holding
- Calling Line Identification (CLI)
- Carphone / Car Kit
- CDMA
- CDMA2000 1x
- Cell Site or Base Station
- Cellular Network
- Cellular Service
- Circuit Switching
- CLIP
- CLIR
- Closed User Group
- Conference Call
- Connectivity
- Data
- Data / Fax capability
- Data Card
- DECT
- Digital
- DTMF (Dual Tone Multi-Frequency)
- Dual Band
- Dynamic Memory
- EDGE
- EFR (Enhanced Full Rate)
- Electronic Mail / E-mail
- FDMA
- Firewall
- Fixed dialling numbers
- Gateway
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- GPRS
- GSM
- High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD)
- Infrared (irDA)
- International Roaming
- Java™
- JPEG
- Kbps
- Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
- Local Area Network
- Microbrowser
- MMS
- Mobile Broadband System (MBS)
- Mobile Communication
- Mobile Device
- Modem
- Modulation
- Multimedia
- Network
- Nicad
- Nickel-Hydride (NiMH)
- Packet
- Packet Switching
- PC Card
- PCS
- Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
- Phonebook
- PIN
- Portable Hands-Free
- PUK
- Radio
- Remote LAN
- RS232 cable
- SIM Toolkit (Subscriber Identity Module Application Toolkit)
- Smart Phones
- SMS
- Symbian OS
- SyncML
- Talktime and Standby time
- Tariff
- TDMA
- Telemetry
- Terminal
- Three volt / Five volt SIM card
- Transceiver
- Transmission Speed
- Voice Markup Languge (VoxML)
- Voice recognition
- Voicemail
- WAP
- Windows CE™
- Wireless
- Wireless Markup Language (WML)
