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Over-the-air service provisioning (OTASP)

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

The ability of carriers to add new types of services to a customer's handset by using the wireless network instead of requiring the customer to bring the phone to a carrier's location for ...

Number pooling

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

Increasingly popular tactic for conserving phone numbers. Numbers are returned by all carriers to a central authority, which puts them in a pool, from which carriers receive numbers in lots of 1,000, ...

Nickel metal hydride battery (NiMH)

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A rechargeable battery that is capable of holding more power that a NiCd battery and suffers much less from memory effect. It is also typically more expensive than a NiCd battery.

Mutual compensation

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

The concept that carriers must pay when they terminate traffic on the networks of carriers with which they are interconnected.

SIM card

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A small printed circuit board that must be inserted in any GSM-based mobile phone when signing on as a subscriber. It contains subscriber details, security information and memory for a personal ...