Western Area Power Administration World Administrative Radio / APL / Information Administration Organization Act National Television / Center MSS Mobile Satellite Systems MTA Major Trading / AT&T / Portable Data Terminal PLMR Private Land Mobile Radio / SSB / Hazardous Materials High Definition Television / National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee National Telecommunications / Telegraph ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATV Advanced Television / API American Paging Inc. / Emergency Preparedness / Telephone Corp. / Mobile Phone System AMSC American Mobile Satellite Corporation / Information Administration National Telecommunications / International Inc. / /
Country
United States / /
Event
Product Issues / /
Facility
State Highway / Highway Systems JPEG JSMS Joint Photographic Expert Group Joint Spectrum Management System KB/S / Rescue Integrated Digital Electronic Network Institute / /
IndustryTerm
Wireless Network / Wireless Users Group Frequency Modulation Fire Mutual / Internet Protocol Intellectual Property / /
MusicGroup
Tactics / Weapons / /
Organization
Gaussian Noise BER BIFC BPA BTA Bit Error Rate Boise Inter-agency Fire Cache Bonneville Power Administration Basic Trading Area CAD Computer-Aided Dispatch CAI Common Air Interface CAP Competitive Access Provider CBP Community Based Policing CCITT Consultative Committee on International Telephony / Only Memory CDF California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection / World Health Organization / Governments COMSAT Commercial Mobile Satellite Systems COPE Coalition of Private Users / Administrators National Association / NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION / CMSS Commercial Mobile Satellite Systems COG Council / IMO IMSA IMTS INMARSAT INS/CECOM International Association of Chiefs / Department of Energy / PUBLIC SAFETY WIRELESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE / Communication Plan Incident Command System Interagency Committee on Search / Digital Electronic Network Institute / Metropolitan Transportation Authority / North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Federal Emergency Management Agency / New York City Transit MTBF Mean Time Between Failure MTSO Mobile Telephone Switching Office NAM NASNA NASTD NATO NCIC NCIC-2000 NENA NFPA Number Assignment Module National Association / Data Collection Instrument DGPS Differential Global Positioning Systems DMAT Disaster Medical Assistance Team DMV Department of Motor Vehicles DOD Departement / International Maritime Organization / Federal Communications Commission / United States Army / PMARS Police Mutual Aid Radio System PMO Program Management Office POTS Plain Old Telephone System PPM Parts Per Million PRS Police Radio Service PSA Protected Service Area PSAM Pilot Symbol Assisted Modulation PSAP Public Safety Answering Point PSCC Public Safety Communications Council / Committee National Television Systems Committee Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. New York City Department of Information / LIST OF ACRONYMS AASHTO American Association of State Highway / International Telecommunication Union / Telcommunications OASD Office / American National Standards Institute APCO Association of Public Safety Communications officials / Police International Association / /
Person
LATA LEO LGRS LMCC LMR LMS / TTAB TTIB TX / Washington Metropolitan / TIA TMC TRSC / /
Position
Personal Digital Assistant / Rescue Team USCG U.S. Coast Guard / Larry Irving Assistant Secretary of Commerce / Reed E. Hundt Chairman / Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information September / Assistant Secretary of Defense / EXECUTIVE / Commander / / TSAR / /
Product
Delta / Materials High Definition Television / /
ProgrammingLanguage
R / T / /
RadioStation
WAPA / FLEWUG FM / WARC / KBPS / /
SportsLeague
International Association / /
Technology
LAN / MPEG / JPEG / CDMA / GPS / MPEG-4 / Personal Digital Assistant / Random Access / VSAT / PCS / TCP/IP / Local Exchange Carrier / Rescue Transparent Tone Above Band Transparent Tone In Band Transmit UDP User Datagram Protocol / Aperture Vector Sum Excited Linear Predictive Vehicular Technology / GIS / MPEG-1 / PSTN / GIF / Operating Capability Internet Protocol / Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Transmission Control Protocol / AVI / Radio Frequency / Frequency Modulation / TDMA / DSP / PDA / PBX / Integrated Circuit / CAD / /