ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS

 

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

 

 

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