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Here is a selection of terms used in mobile that you might find useful:

3G Third Generation Mobile Services

3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

API Application Program Inter

ARPU Average Revenue Per User

ASCI Advanced Speech Cal Items

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASN ATM Switching Network

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode Bluetooth Embedded in electronic devices to provide short range wireless connections

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data

CLI Calling Line Identification

CODEC Coder/Decoder

DRM Digital Rights Management

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency

DVB-H Digital Video Broadcast (for) Handhelds

EAMR EDGE Adaptive Multi-Rate

EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

E-GSM Extended (frequency range) GSM

FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access

FMC Fixed Mobile Convergence

GIF Graphical Interchange Format

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GSM Global System for Mobile Communications

GSMA A global trade association representing GSM operators worldwide

HDML Handheld Device Markup Language

HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data

HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access, an evolution of WCDMA

HSPA High Speed Packet Access

HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet access, an evolution of WCDMA

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure sockets

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (ITU third generation mobile standard)

IP Internet Protocol

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISP Internet Service Provider

ISUP ISDN User Part

ITU International Telecommunication Union

ITU-T International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardisation Sector

IWF InterWorking Function

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSP Java Server Pages

LAN Local Area Network

MAP Mobile Application Part

MIDP Mobile Information Device Profile

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service

MPEG Motion Picture Expert Group Body established by the International Standards Organisation to provide the basis for a picture coding and compression system

MSISDN Mobile Station ISDN

MSRN Mobile Subscriber Roaming Number

MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator

NSS Network Switching Subsystem

NTP Network Time Protocol

Parlay An evolving set of specifications for industry-standard APIs for managing network services such as call control, messaging, and content-based charging

PIN Personal Identification Number

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

Servlet A small program that runs on a server

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SIP Session Initiation Protocol (switching protocol based on IP)

SLA Service Level Agreement

SMPP Short Message Peer-to-Peer (protocol)

SMS Short Message Service

SMSC Short Message Service Center

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

SS7 Signalling System No. 7

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TD-CDMA Time Division Code Division Multiple Access

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (family member of IMT-2000 standard)

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol

VPN Virtual Private Network

WAP Wireless Application Protocol

WBMP Wireless BitMap

WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

Web Services A standardised way of integrating applications over the Internet using open protocols and inters

WIM WAP Identity Module

WLAN Wireless Local Access Network

WML Wireless Markup Language

WMV Windows Media Video

WSDL Web Services Description Language

WURFL Wireless Universal Resource File

XHTML eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language

XML eXtensible Markup Language