Annex I: Glossary 3GPP The third generation partnership project (3GPP) is a collaboration of groups of telecommunications associations, to make a globally applicable third generation mobile phone system specification within the scope of the International Telecommunication Union. AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) is the analogue mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1983 and Australia in 1987. It was the primary analogue mobile phone system in North America (and other locales) through the 1980s and into the 2000s. As of February 18, 2008, Carriers in the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies such as AT&T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently. ANSI The American National Standards Institute is a private non-profit organisation that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organisation also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide. ATM An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is a computerized telecommunications device that provides the customers of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public space without the need for a human clerk or bank teller. CDMA Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method utilized by various radio communication technologies. It should not be confused with the mobile phone standards called cdmaOne and CDMA2000 (which are often referred to as simply ‘CDMA’), that use CDMA as their underlying channel access methods. CDMA 2000 CDMA2000 is a hybrid 2.5G / 3G technology of mobile telecommunications standards that use CDMA, a multiple access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data, and signalling data (such as a dialled telephone number) between mobile phones and cell sites. Consumer A consumer is an individual or household that use goods and services generated within the economy. The consumer is the end-user of a product or service, and constitutes the last element in the production-consumption chain of goods and services.
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