Phone book | A memory in your mobile phone or SIM card where phone numbers |
| can be stored and accessed by name or position. |
PIM | Personal Information Management. |
SC | 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 |
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| information and memory for a personal directory of numbers. The card |
| can be a small |
| same functions. Your phone uses the small |
SIR | Serial Infrared. |
SMS | Short Message Service. Allows messages of up to 160 characters to be |
| sent and received via the network operator's message centre to your |
| mobile phone. Messages are stored if the phone is off or out of reach |
| ensuring that they reach you. To use this service, it must be supported |
| by your network. |
SS | Supplementary Services. |
SWIM card | A SIM card with a WIM module. |
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. |
TE | Terminal Equipment. |
TLS | Transport Layer Security. |
Triple Band |
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GSM 900/1800/1900 | Your phone is a triple band phone, which means that you can use your |
| phone on three different kinds of networks – the GSM 900 and the |
| GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 systems (also called PCN or DCS 1800) |
| systems. |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator. |
USSD | Unstructured Supplementary Services Data. |
VAD | Voice Activated Dialling. |
VAS | Value Added Service. |
vCalendar | vCalendar defines a transport and |
| exchanging calendar and scheduling information for use in PIMs/ |
| PDAs and group schedulers. vCalendar is specified by IETF. |
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 conferencing, 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 typi- |
| cally a unit of interaction with the user, that is, either presentation of |
| information or request for information from the user. A collection of |
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