User Guide

CCS Technical Documentation System Module
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IOTA (Internet Over The Air): Specification for Internet based Over The Air handset
configuration management.
MIN (Mobile Identification Number): A number assigned by the wireless carrier to a
customer's phone. The MIN is meant to be changeable, since the phone could change
hands or a customer could move to another city. See also ESN, IMSI, TMSI.
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): The standard format, developed
and adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), for including non-text infor-
mation in Internet mail, thus supporting the transmission of mixed-media messages
across TCP/IP networks. In addition to covering binary, audio, and video data, MIME is the
standard for transmitting foreign language text, which cannot be represented in ASCII
code.
NAM (Number Assignment Module): The NAM is the electronic memory in the wire-
less phone that stores the telephone number and electronic serial number.
OTA (Over the Air): Network based features for over the air activation's OTASP (Over
the Air Service Provisioning, OTAPA (Over The Air Parameter Administration) pertinent to
IS-683 (A).
PCS (Personal Communications Services): FCC terminology describing two-way,
personal, digital wireless communications systems. Several traditional cellular companies
now offer PCS services.
PDA (Personal Digital Assistant): Portable computing devices capable of transmitting
data. These devices make possible services such as paging, data messaging, electronic
mail, stock quotations, handwriting recognition, personal computing, facsimile, date
book, and other information-handling capabilities.
PIM (Personal Information Manager): Also known as a 'contact manager,' is a form
of software that logs personal and business information, such as contacts, appointments,
lists, notes, occasions, etc.
PRI (Product Release Instructions): Programmable product parameters for default
customer settings.
PRL (Preferred Roaming List): A list of customer preferred settings supported by IS-
683 capabilities.
Protocol: A specific set of rules for organizing the transmission of data in a network.
RF (Radio Frequency): A frequency well above the range of human hearing.
SMS (Short Message Service): A service to send short alphanumeric messages
between devices.
Spread Spectrum: A modulation technique, also known as frequency hopping, used in