AIN

Advanced Intelligent Network

AMPS

Advanced Mobile Phone Service

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

BCF

Base Station Control Function

BSS

Base Station System

CAI

Common Air Interface

CAPCODE

The electronic address of a radio pager and telephone number in a paging terminal

CC

Country Code

CCITT

Consultive Committee for Internation Telephony &Telegraphy

CCS

Communications Call Seconds-a measure of trafffic density

CCIR

International Radio Consultative Committee

CCIS

Common Channel Interoffice Signaling

CCIS7

Common Channel Interoffice Signaling System #7, a CCITT standard

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CEEC

Commission of the European Economic Community

CEPT

Conference of European Posts and Telecommunications

CGSA

Cellular Geographic Service Area

CO

Central Office

COAM

Customer Owned And Maintained equipment

CP

Construction Permit

CT-1

Cordless Telephone first generation (Current Cordless)

CT-2

Cordless Telephone second generation-outbound public and in/outbound home service (A United Kingdom standard)

CT-3

Cordless Telephone third generation (standards still formative)

CTIA

Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association

CU

Carrier Unit

DCA

Dynamic Channel Allocation

DCC

Digital Cross Connection

DCT

Dynamic Digital Cordless Telephone

DCU

Digital Control Unit

DDS

Digital Data System

DECT

Digital European Cordless Telephony (standard)

DREA

Digital Radio Exchange Access

DSP

Digital Signal Processing

DSS

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

E-TDMA

Enhanced TDMA Access

EAMPS

Expanded Advanced Mobile Phone Service

ECSA

Exchange Carriers Standards Association

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

EOC

Embedded Operations Channel

ERMES

European Radio Messaging Services

ESN

Electronic Serial Number

ESP

Enhanced Service Provider

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FCC

Federal Communications Commission (U.S.)