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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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Rate centre

Rate centre

Rate matching

Rate matching

RAU

Routing Area Update

Rayleigh Fading

Rayleigh Fading

Rayleigh Scattering

Rayleigh Scattering

RB

Resource Block

RB

Radio Bearer

RBG

Resource Block Group

RBOC

Regional Bell Operating Companies

RBSN

Reduced Block Sequence Number

RC

Radio Configuration

RC4

RC4

RC5

RC5

RC6

RC6

RCAF

RAN Congestion Awareness Function

RCF

Radio Control Function

RCS

Rich Communication Services

RD

Route Distinguisher

Ready State

Ready State

Reassociation

Reassociation

Received Signal Code Power

Received Signal Code Power

Receiver Antenna Gain

Receiver Antenna Gain

Receiver Noise Figure

Receiver Noise Figure

Receiver Sensitivity

Receiver Sensitivity (dBm)

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