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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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CAT

Customized Alerting Tone

CAZAC

Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation

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

CC

Country Code

CC

Convolutional Code

CC

Content of Communication

CCA

Credit Control Answer

CCA

Clear Channel Assessment

CCBS

Completion of Calls to Busy Subscriber

CCCH

Common Control Channel (UMTS)

CCCH

Common Control Channel

CCE

Control Channel Element

CCF

Call Control Function

CCF

Charging Collection Function

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