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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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AGPS

Assisted Global Positioning System

AIFS

Arbitration Interframe Space

AIFSN

Arbitration Interframe Space Number

Ambient Noise

Ambient Noise

AMIS

Audio Messaging Interchange Specification

AMPS

Advanced Mobile Phone Service

Analogue signal

Analogue signal

Analogue transmission

Analogue transmission

ANDSF

Access Network Discovery and Selection Function

ANS

Answer Message

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

Answerback

Answerback

Applications / Clients

Applications / Clients

APS

Access Probe Sequence

APSD

Automatic Power Save Delivery

AS

Application Server

AS

Active Set

ASA

Access Sub-attempt

ASA

Authorised Shared Access

ASBR

Autonomous System Boundary Router

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASE

Application Service Element

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASME

Access Security Management Entity

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