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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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AMBR

Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate

AMC

Adaptive Modulation and Coding

AMD

Acknowledged Mode Data

AMF

Authentication Management Field

AMF

Access and Mobility Management Function

AMIS

Audio Messaging Interchange Specification

Amplifier

Amplifier

AMPS

Advanced Mobile Phone Service

AMR

Adaptive Multi Rate

AMR-WB

AMR Wideband

Analogue signal

Analogue signal

Analogue transmission

Analogue transmission

ANDSF

Access Network Discovery and Selection Function

ANF

Assigned Number Field

ANI

Automatic Number Identification

ANM

Answer Message

ANR

Automatic Neighbour Relation

ANS

Answer Message

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

Answerback

Answerback

ANT+

ANT+

Antenna Gain

Antenna Gain (dBi)

AOA

Angle of Arrival

AoC

Advice of Charge

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