White Paper
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February 2006
ME
Mobile Equipment. (Phone excluding SIM card)
MeT
Mobile Electronic Transactions. An initiative
founded by Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola to estab-
lish a secure and consistent framework for mobile
transactions.
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI defines a
protocol and file format which enables music to be
described and stored in binary form.
MIDP
Mobile Information Device Profile. An API (or 'pro-
file' in J2ME nomenclature) defined to enable a
standard programming API for mobile devices.
MIDP compliant applications execute in the
restricted environment defined by the CLDC.
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A protocol
defining how messages are sent on the Internet.
MIME is used to describe how attachments are
encoded and what type of data they contain.
MMS
Multimedia Messaging Service. Logical extension
of SMS and EMS, MMS defines a service enabling
sound, images and video to be combined into mul-
timedia messages.
MMS-C
MMS Service Centre
MO
Mobile Origination. Such as, an SMS message sent
from a mobile terminal.
MP3
MPEG Audio Layer 3. An audio compression tech-
nology that is part of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 specifi-
cations. Commonly used to distribute music on the
Internet and on portable players.
MPEG
Moving Picture Experts Group. A working group of
ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards
for coded representation of digital audio and video.
MS
Mobile Station. (Phone and SIM card)
MT
Mobile Termination.
OS
Operating System, such as Symbian OS, Linux,
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
.
OTA
Over-the Air Configuration. To provide settings for
the phone by way of sending a message, SMS,
over the network to the phone. This reduces the
need for the user to configure the phone manually.
PC
Personal Computer.
PCS
Personal Communications Services, often used to
describe GSM1900 networks.
PDA
Personal Digital Assistant. A handheld computer
having functions such as address book, calendar
etc.
Portable Document Format. A format created by
Adobe for storing and distributing documents.
PDP
Packet Data Protocol.
Personal Java™
An edition of Java™ appropriate for mobile devices
such as PDAs.
Phone book
A memory in the SIM card where phone numbers
can be stored and accessed by name or position.
