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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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CCS

Common Channel Signalling

CDMA Frequency Assignment

CDMA Frequency Assignment

CDMA Preferred Set

CDMA Preferred Set.

Cell Reselection

Cell Reselection

Cell Selection

Cell Selection

Center SR3 Frequency

Center SR3 Frequency

Checksum

Checksum

Circuit Switching

Circuit Switching

CKSN

Cipher Key Sequence Number

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

CMAS

Commercial Mobile Alert Service

Code Symbol

Code Symbol

Common Power Control Sub channel

Common Power Control Sub channel

Community Strings

Community Strings

Compression

Compression

Conversational Service

Conversational Service

COPS

Common Open Policy Services

CoS

Class of Service

COTS

Commercial Off The Shelf

CPCS

Common Part Convergence Sublayer

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