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

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Pilot Strength

Pilot Strength

PIN

Personal Identification Number

PING

Packet Internet Groper

Ping of Death

Ping of Death

Plaintext

Plaintext

PLMN

Public Land Mobile Network

PN

Pseudorandom Noise

PN

N-PDU Number

PN Chip

PN Chip

PNCH

Packet Notification Channel

PNF

Physical Network Function

PNP

Private Numbering Plan

POC Client

POC Client

Point to Multipoint

Point to Multipoint

Point-to-Point

Point-to-Point

PON

Passive Optical Networks

Port Number

Port Number

Power Control Bit

Power Control Bit

Power Down Registration

Power Down Registration

Power Up Registration

Power Up Registration

Precedence

Precedence

Presence

Presence Application Server

Presence Server

Presence Server

Primary CDMA Channel

Primary CDMA Channel

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