Abbreviations

ADSL

Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line

AMPS

Advanced Mobile Phone System

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATSC

Advanced Television Systems Committee

BBO

Buy-Build-Operate

BOO

Build-Own-Operate

BOOT

Build-Own-Operate-Transfer

BWA

Broadband Wireless Access

CA

Conditional Access

CATV

CAble TV

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CDMA2000

CDMA 2000

CEPT

Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et Télécommunications

CERTs

Computer Emergency Response Teams

DAB

Digital Audio Broadcasting

DARPA

Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency

DBFO

Design-Build-Finance-Operate

DMB

Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DTH

Direct To Home

DTTV

Digital Terrestrial TV

DTV

Digital TV

DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting

DVB-H

DVB- Handheld

DVB-T

DVB- Terrestrial

EDGE

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution

ENUM

tElephone NUmber Mapping

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EU

European Union

FCC

Federal Communications Commission

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplexing

FEC

Forward Error Correction

FM

Frequency Modulation

FMC

Fixed Mobile Convergence

FMI

Fixed Mobile Integration

FTTH

Fibre To the Home

FTTx

FTTHome, FTTArea, FTTCabinet, FTTCurb, …

FWA

Fixed wireless Access

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

GPS

Global Positioning System

GSM

Global System for Mobile communication

HDR

Hardware Defined Radio

HDTV

High Definition TV

HSCSD

High Speed Circuit Switched Data

ICT

Information and Communication Technologies

IEC

International Electronical Commission

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IP

Internet Protocol

IPTV

IP Television

IPv4

IP version 4

IPv6

IP version 6

ISDB

Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting,

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISM

Industrial, Science and Medical

SLA

Service Level Agreement

ISP

Internet Service Provider

ITU

International Telecommunication Union

ITU-T

ITU-Telecommunication

LAN

Local Area Network

LF

Low Frequency

LRAIC

Long Run Average Incremental Cost

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MediaFLO

Media Forward Link Only

MOS

Mean Opinion Score

MPEG

Moving Pictures Expert Group

MSP

Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

NGAN

Next Generation Access Network

NGCN

Next Generation Core Network

NGN

Next Generation Network

NMT

Nordic Mobile Telephone

PCM

Pulse Code Modulation

PDC

Personal Digital Cellular

PDH

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy

PHS

Personal Handyphone System

PLC

Power Line Communication

POTS

Plain Old Telephony Services

PPP

Public Private Partnership

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

QoS

Quality of service

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

SDH

Synchronous  Digital Hierarchy

SDR

Software Defined Radio

TACS

Total Access Communication Systems

TDCDMA

Time Division- Code Division Multiple Access

TDMA

Time Division  Multiple Access

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UHF

Ultra High Frequency

UK

United Kingdom

US

United States

USO

Universal Service Obligation

VAN

Value Added Network

VHF

Very High Frequency

VHS

Video Home System

VLF

Very Low Frequency

VoD

Video on Demand

VoIP

Voice over IP

VSAT

Very Small Aperture Terminal

WCDMA

Wideband CDMA

Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity

WiMAX

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WSIS

World Summit on Information Society

WWW

World Wide WEB

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