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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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ARIB

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

Association

Association

ATI

Any Time Interrogation

ATIM

Announcement Traffic Indication Message

ATIS

Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards

Attenuation

Attenuation

Audiotex

Audiotex

AUI

Attachment Unit Interface

AUID

Application Unique ID

Authentication

Authentication

Auto Correlation Function

Auto Correlation Function

Automated Key Distribution

Automated Key Distribution

Average Transmit Power

Average Transmit Power

B-ISDN

Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network

BA List

BCCH Allocation List

BAIC

Barring of All Incoming Calls supplementary service

Bandwidth

Bandwidth

Baseline capabilities

Baseline capabilities

Basic Access Mode

Basic Access Mode

Bastion Server

Bastion Server

BCCH Chip Bit

Broadcast Control Channel Chip Bit

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