| Term | Description |
WAP | WAP - Wireless Application Protocol; a de facto standard for enabling mobile phones to access the Internet and advanced services. Users can access websites and pages which have been converted by the use of WML into stripped-down versions of the original more suitable for the limited display capabilities of mobile phones
|
WARC | WARC - World Administration Radio Conference; an ITU conference held at regular intervals to determine the allocation of spectrum for various services
|
WCDMA | WCDMA - Wideband Code Division Multiple Access. An approved third-generation (3G) wireless standard which utilizes one 5 MHz channel for both voice and data, offering data speeds of 144 Kbps to 2 Mbps.
|
WLAN | WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network; a short range radio network normally deployed in traffic hotspots such as airport lounges, hotels and restaurants. WLAN enables suitably equipped users to access the fixed network wirelessly, providing high speed access (up to 11Mbit/s download) to distant servers. The key WLAN technologies are the IEEE802.11 family and ETSI HIPERLAN/2
|
WLL | WLL - Wireless Local Loop; a technique for providing telephony and low speed data services to fixed customers using wireless. Regarded as having considerably potential for rapidly addressing the telecommunications gap in developing countries. A number of different WLL solutions have been marketed based on cellular and cordless technologies
|
WML | WML - Wireless Markup Language; a markup language developed specifically for wireless applications. WML is based on XML
|
WQAM | WQAM - Weighted Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
|
WWW | WWW - World Wide Web
|
