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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 transmission

Analogue transmission

ANM

Answer Message

APN AMBR

Access Point Name Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate

ASME

Access Security Management Entity

ATIM

Announcement Traffic Indication Message

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATM Forum

ATM Forum

Automated Key Distribution

Automated Key Distribution

Average Transmit Power

Average Transmit Power

b-number

b-number

Basic Access Mode

Basic Access Mode

BCM

Bandwidth Constraint Model

BCSM

Basic Call State Model

BIC-Roam

Barring of Incoming Calls when Roaming outside the home PLMN country supplementary service

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