ABC - Audit Bureau of Circulation
ACTA - America’s Carriers Telecommunication Association
AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone Service
API - Application Programming Interface
ARTS - Advanced Radio Technology Subcommittee
ASSCII - American Standard for Communications Information Interchange
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATRAC - Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding
ATSC - Advanced Television System Committee
AVE - Automatic Virtual Environment
AWD - Alternate World Disorder
B-Channels - Bearer Channels
BISDN - Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BMP - Bitmap Graphic
BRI - Basic Rate Interface
CASIE - Coalition for Advertising Supported Information and Entertainment
CCITT - Consultative Committee of International Telegraph and Telephone
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CD - Compact Disc
CD-I - Compact Disc - Interactive
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CD-MD - Compact Disc - Mini Disc
CD-R - Compact Disc - Recordable
CD-ROM - Compact Disc - Read Only Memory
CD-RW - Compact Disc - Rewritable
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
CLASS - Custom Local Area Signaling Services
COS - Card Operating System
CPN Message - Calling Party Number Message
CSS - Content Scrambling System
CTI - Computer Telephony Integration
CTIA - Cellular Technology Industry Association
DAB - Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAT - Digital Audio Tape
DBC - Data Broadcasting Corporation
DBS - Direct Broadcast Satellite
D-Channel - Data Channel
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DGPS - Differential Global Positioning System
Digital MMDS - Wireless Cable
DIVX - Digital Video Express
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DTV - Digital Television
DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting
DVC - Desktop Video Conferencing
DVD - Digital Video Disc
DVD - ROM - Digital Video Disc - Read Only Memory
ECM - Error Correction Mode
E-commerce - Electronic Commerce
EF - Electric Field
EIA - Electronics Industries Association
E-mail - Electronic Mail
EMS - E-Mail System
E-rate - Education-Rate Telecommunications discount program
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
FEC - Forwards Error Correction
FERAM - Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
FSN - Full Service Network
GB - Gigabyte
GPS - Global Positioning System
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communication
GUI - Graphical User Interface
HDM - Head Mounted Displays
HD-TV - High Definition Television
HFC - Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial
H/PC - Handheld Personal Computer
H.R. 2180 - House Resolution 2180 - On-line Copyright Liability Limitation Act
H.R. 2281 - House Resolution 2281 - Treaties Implementation Act
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
IBOC - In-Band-On-Channel
IBS - Integrated Broadband Service
ICR - Intelligent Character Recognition
IDC - International Data Corporation
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
IP - Internet Protocols
IPR - International Property Rights
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO9660 - International Standards Organization 9660
ISP - Internet Service Provider
ISRF - Internet Screenphone Reference Forum
ISTEA - Intermodal Surface Transport Efficiency Act
ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems
ITU - International Telecommunications Union
JAVA - A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
JVM - Java Virtual Machine
LAN - Local Area Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LEC - Local Exchange Carrier
MEL - MULTOS Executable Language
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MMR - Modified Modified Read
MMTA - Multimedia Telecommunications Association
MMU - Maintenance Monitoring Unit
MPC - Multimedia Personal Computer
MPEG - Motion Pictures Expert Group
MSC - Mobile Switching Center
MSNBC - Microsoft National Broadcasting Company
MTA - Major Trading Area
MTSO - Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MULTOS - A new multi-application card operating system
NAHSC - National Automated Highway System Consortium
NAMPS - Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service
NC - Network Computer
NCD - Network Computing Device
NTSC - National Television System Committee
NVOD - Near On Demand Video
OFDM - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex
OS - Operating System
PAN - Personal Area Network
PC - Personal Computer
PC Card - Personal Computer Card
PCN - Personal Communication Network
PCS - Personal Communication System
PDF - Portable Document Format
Photo-CD - Photo-Compact Disc
PI - Per Inquiry
PICS - Plate Form for Internet Content Selection
PIN - Personal Identification Number
PPV - Pay Per View
Quicktime - A multi-featured program that plays sound, animation and video files in a time-based programmed mode
RAM - Random Access Memory
RBCOs - Regional Bell Operating Companies
RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol
RLE - Run Length Encoding
S 1121 - Senate 1121 - On-line Copyright Liability Limitation Act
SA - Selective Availability
SCMS - Serial Copy Management System
SD- TV - Standard Definition Television
SET - Secure Electronic Transaction
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
SIG - Special Interest Group
SMR - Specialized Mobile Radio
SPA - Software Publishers Association
SS7 - Signaling System 7
SSL - Secure Socket Layer
STP - Signal Transfer Point
TCI - Telecommunications Inc., the largest cable company to date
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access
TGA - An imaging standard for electronic publishing
TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association
UPR - User Performance Requirement
USF - Universal Service Fund
USSB - United States Satellite Broadcasting Company
VC - Video Conferencing
VC CODEC - Video Conferencing Coder-Decoder
V-Chip - Anti-violence Chip
VM - Virtual Machine
VOD - Video On Demand
VR - Virtual Reality
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WAEA - World Airline Entertainment Association
WBT - Windows-Based Terminals
Web TV - Enables viewers to watch the WWW on their TV
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
WTS - Windows Terminal Server
WWW - World Wide Web