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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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PRACH

Packet Random Access Channel

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PRACK

Provisional Response Acknowledgement

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PRAF

Positioning Radio Assistance Function

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PRB

Physical Resource Block

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PRC

Primary Reference Clock

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PRCF

Positioning Radio Coordination Function

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Pre-arranged Group

Pre-arranged Group

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Precedence

Precedence

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Presence

Presence Application Server

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Presence Server

Presence Server

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PRI

Primary Rate Interface

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Primary CDMA Channel

Primary CDMA Channel

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Primitive

Primitive

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Private Call

MCPTT Private Call

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Private Key

Private Key

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PRN

Provide Roaming Number

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Proactive SIM

Proactive SIM

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Propagation Delay

Propagation Delay

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ProSe

Proximity-based services

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ProSe Direct Communication

Proximity Services Direct Communication

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ProSe Discovery

Proximity Services Discovery

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Protection Switching

Protection Switching

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Protocol

Protocol

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Protocol Stack

Protocol Stack

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