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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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Checksum

Checksum

Class A Terminal

Class A Terminal

Class B Terminal

Class B Terminal

Class C Terminal

Class C Terminal

Classmark

Classmark

Closest Match Routing

Closest Match Routing

CM

Connection Management

CMAC

Cipher Message Authentication Code

CMAS

Commercial Mobile Alert Service

CMD

Command

CMIP

Client Mobile IP

CMM

Channel Mode Modify

CMP

Certificate Management Protocol

CMR

Codec Mode Request

Code Symbol

Code Symbol

COM

Complete

Combinational Code

Combinational Code

Common Power Control Sub channel

Common Power Control Sub channel

Community Strings

Community Strings

Companding

Companding

Compression

Compression

Connected mode

Connected mode

CP-OFDM

Cyclic Prefix – Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

CPIM

Common Profile for Instant Messaging

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