PIM
Personal Information Management.
SMS-C
Service Centre (for SMS).
Service provider
A company that provides services and subscriptions to mobile phone users.
SI
Service Indication.
SL
Service Loading.
SIM card
Subscriber Identity Module card — a card that must be inserted in any
SMS
Short Messaging Service. Allows messages of up to 160 characters to be sent and received via the network operator's message centre to a mobile phone.
SS
Supplementary Services.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. The telecommunications system, incorporating mobile cellular and other functionality, that is the subject of standards produced by 3GPP.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator.
USSD
Unstructured Supplementary Services Data.
VAS
Value Added Service.
T300/T302
White Paper, August 2002
vCard
vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card, for use in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, telephony applications, call centres, video conferences, PIMs /PDAs, pagers, fax, office equipment, and smart cards. vCard is specified by IETF.
WAE
Wireless Application Environment.
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol. Handheld devices, low bandwidth, binary coded, a deck/card metaphor to specify a service. A card is typically a unit of interaction with the user, that is, either presentation of information or request for information from the user. A collection of cards is called a deck, which usually constitutes a service.
WAP Application
A collection of WML cards, with the new context attribute set in the entry card.
WAP service
A WML application residing on a web site.
WBMP
WAP Bitmap.
WBXML
Wireless Binary Extensible Markup Language.
WDP
Wireless Datagram Protocol.
WML
Wireless Markup Language. A markup language used for authoring services, fulfilling the same purpose as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) does on the World Wide Web (WWW). In contrast to HTML, WML is designed to fit small handheld devices.
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