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Glossary

Explore our library of thousands of telecoms terms and acronyms defined for on-the-job reference or learning new material.

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Plaintext

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PMA or PM_ADDR

Parked Member Address

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PoA

Point of Attachment

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Power Down Registration

Power Down Registration

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Power Up Registration

Power Up Registration

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PRACH

Physical Random Access Channel

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PRACH

Packet Random Access Channel

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PRACK

Provisional Response Acknowledgement

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PRAF

Positioning Radio Assistance Function

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Primary CDMA Channel

Primary CDMA Channel

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Private Key

Private Key

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Proactive SIM

Proactive SIM

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Propagation Delay

Propagation Delay

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Protocol Stack

Protocol Stack

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PSA

PDU Session Anchor

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PSAP

Public Safety Answering Point

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QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

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QAP

Quality Access Point

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Qmap

Qmap

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QoS Negotiated

QoS Negotiated

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Qqualmeas

Qqualmeas

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Qqualmin

Qqualmin

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QSTA

Quality Station

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Quantization

Quantization

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