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- Asterisk
- An open-source software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX). Asterisk-based telephony solutions offer a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical More…
- Mobile Virtual Network Operator
- (MVNO) A company that does not own a licensed frequency spectrum, but resells wireless services under their own brand name, using the network of another mobile phone operator. An MVNO's More…
- Multimedia Messaging Service
- (MMS) A technology for transmitting not only text messages, but also various kinds of multimedia content (e.g. images, audio, and/or video clips) over wireless telecommunications networks More…
- Short Messaging Service
- (SMS) A service available on most digital mobile phones (and other mobile devices, e.g. a Pocket PC, or occasionally even desktop computers and landline phones that permits the sending of More…
- Softphone
- (webphone) A software that simulates a real phone and runs on a general purpose computer, rather than a dedicated device. Softphone enables users to use a pc to make calls to another pc or More…
- Softswitch
- The term "softswitch", despite being widely used in the telecommunications industry, doesn't really have a clear definition. Softswitch, media gateway controller, call agent, gatekeeper: More…
- White Spaces
- Unused radio frequencies between used radio bands or channels allocated to a broadcasting service. This is sometime referred to as "guard bands" purposely left blank to avoid More…
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