W

See: Watt

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

WABI

Windows Application Binary Interface

WAE

See: Wireless Application Environment

Wafer

A thin slice of semiconductor material on which integrated circuits are built.

WAIS

Wide Area Information Service

Wake

A process of re-activating electronic circuits (such as radio receivers) after they have been in sleep mode so they can perform normal operations.

Walkie-Tallkie

A mode of voice communication in which one subscriber talks and other subscribers listen on the same talk group.

Wallet Share Improvement

Wallet Share Improvement is the process of actively and passively doing something that result in the customer either using more services or buying more products than before.

Wallet Share, Acquisition, and Retention (WAR)

Three core marketing objectives used by telephone companies to provide higher value to customers, acquire new customers, and keep customers from reducing or disconnecting services.

Walsh Code Administration

The process of assigning codes in a code division multiple access (CDMA) system to minimize interference between the codes. For the CDMA2000 system, Walsh codes are different traffic channel and have variable length that vary from hundred-twenty eight chips to four chips in length for each traffic channel, dependent on the data transmission rate.

WAN

See: Wide Area Network

WAP

See: Wireless Access Protocol

WAP

See: Wireless Application Provider

WAR

See: Wallet Share, Acquisition, and

Retention

WARC

See: World Administrative Radio

Conference

Warm Start

The process of rebooting a computer system without turning the power off.

Watchdog Timer

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