Filter
Top Products
White Paper T310/T312
42 January 2003
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 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
T310/T312 uses the small plug-in card.
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.
VASP
Value Added Service Provider.
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.
WMLScript
WMLScript can be used to enhance the
functionality of a service, just as, for example,
JavaScript may be utilized in HTML. It makes it
possible to add procedural logic and
computational functions to WAP-based services.
WSP
Wireless Session Protocol.