Dictionary of Communications Technology 3rd edition

This, the third edition in only four years, is witness to the rapid development of telecommunications; a rapid development accompanied by a mushrooming of new definitions and acronyms and abbreviations. There are over 18,000 of them in this dictionary “enabling verifications of definitions, characteristics, options, relay diagrams, paths, alignments, sources, codes, events, tables, sequences, tradenames, methods and numerous other vital facts which can spell disaster if misinterpreted or incorrectly specified”. This all points to an important feature of this dictionary, and this is that it is not just a dictionary. Yes, we learn that GeoNet is a specialised mobile radio...