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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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Cell Reselection

Cell Reselection

Center SR3 Frequency

Center SR3 Frequency

CFNRc

Call Forwarding on mobile subscriber Not Reachable

CFNRy

Call Forwarding on No Reply

CFRI

Contention Free Repetition Interval

Chargeable Event

Chargeable Event

Chirping

Chirping

CIDR

Classless Inter Domain Routing

CINR

Carrier to Interference plus Noise Ratio

Ciphertext

Ciphertext

CIR

Committed Information Rate

Circuit Switching

Circuit Switching

Class A Terminal

Class A Terminal

Class B Terminal

Class B Terminal

Class C Terminal

Class C Terminal

Classmark

Classmark

CLIR

Connected Line Identification Restriction

Closest Match Routing

Closest Match Routing

CMR

Codec Mode Request

Common Power Control Sub channel

Common Power Control Sub channel

Community Strings

Community Strings

Compression

Compression

Conference Factory

Conference Factory

Configuration Change Indicator

Configuration Change Indicator

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