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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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Busy

Busy

Busy Tone

Busy Tone

BVC

BSSGP Virtual Connection

BVCI

BSSGP Virtual Connections Identifier

BWP

Bandwidth part

CAB

Converged Address Book

CACH Chip Bit.

Common Assigned Channel Chip Bit

Call forward busy

Call forward busy

CB

Communication Barring

CB

Cell Broadcast

CBC

Cell Broadcast Centre

CBC

Cipher Block Chaining

CBCH

Cell Broadcast Channel

CBMI

Cell Broadcast Message Identifier

CBQ

Class-Based Queuing

CBR

Constant Bit Rate

CBS

Committed Burst Size

CBWFQ

Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing

CCBS

Completion of Calls to Busy Subscriber

CDMA Channel Number

CDMA Channel Number

CFB

Call Forwarding on mobile subscriber Busy

CFB

Ciphertext Feedback

Chargeable Event

Chargeable Event

Class B Terminal

Class B Terminal

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