PDP

Packet Data Protocol

PIM

Personal Information Management

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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.

PNG

SP-MIDI

SP-MIDI stands for Scalable Polyphony MIDI.

Portable Network Graphic

QCIF

SS

Supplementary Services

Quarter Common Intermediate Format

QVGA

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

Quarter Video Graphics Array

RPE

TA

Timing in Advance

Regular Pulse Excited codec.

RTSP

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

Real Time Streaming Protocol session control.

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 GSM-based mobile phone. It contains subscriber details, security information and memory for a personal directory of numbers. The card can be a small plug-in type or credit card- sized, but both types have the same functions. The phone uses the small plug-in card.

TLS

Transport Layer Security

Triple band

GSM 900/1800/1900

UI

User interface

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.

The global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

USSD

Unstructured Supplementary Services Data

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