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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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BSA

Basic Service Area

BSSAP

Base Station Subsystem Application Part

BSSAP+

Base Station Subsystem Application Part +

BSSAPLE

Base Station System Application Part LCS Extension

BSSMAP

Base Station Subsystem Management Application Part

BSSOMAP

Base Station System Operation and Maintenance Application Part

C-RAN

Cloud RAN

CA

Certification Authority

CA

Cell Allocation

CAB

Converged Address Book

CAC

Connection Admission Control

CACH

Common Assignment Channel

CACH Chip Bit.

Common Assigned Channel Chip Bit

CAI

Charge Advice Information

Call forward busy

Call forward busy

Call forward no answer

Call forward no answer

Call forwarding

Call forwarding

Call pickup

Call pickup

Caller ID

Caller ID

CAMEL

Customized Application for Mobile network Enhanced Logic

Camp On

Camp On

Candidate Set

Candidate Set

CAP

CAMEL Application Part

CAP

Controlled Access Phase

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