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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.

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Glossary Results

UMA

Unlicensed Mobile Access

UMAN

Unlicensed Mobile Access Network

UMD

Unacknowledged Mode Data

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

Unnumbered command

Unnumbered command

Unnumbered response

Unnumbered response

Upstream

Upstream

US-TDMA

US-TDMA

User information

User information

USIM

UMTS Subscriber Identity Module

VIM

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager

VMSC

Visited Mobile Switching Centre

VNFM

VNF Manager

Voice memo

Voice memo

Voicemail

Voicemail

VPLMN

Visited Public Land Mobile Network

VT-IM-CSI

Visited Terminated - IP Multimedia - CAMEL Subscription Information

WB-AMR

Wideband Adaptive Multi Rate

WCDMA

Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

WDM

Wavelength Division Multiplexing

WiMAX

World wide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WML

Wireless Markup Language

WMM

WiFi Multi Media

Worm

Worm