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EDGE
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution. A technology that gives GSMA and TDMA similar capacity to handle services for the third generation of mobile telephony. EDGE was developed to enable the transmission of large amounts of data at a high speed, 384 kilobits per second. (It increases available time slots and data rates over existing wireless networks.) Also known as Enhanced GPRS (E-GPRS).
EFR
Enhanced Full Rate; an alternative voice codec that provides improved voice quality in a GSM network (see CODEC).
EFT
Electronic Funds Transfer.
EGSM
Extended (frequency range) GSM.
EIR
Equipment Identity Register; a database that contains a list of all valid mobile stations within a network based on their IMEI.
Encryption
cryptographic technique utilizing a digital key to scramble and hence "lock data in such a manner that it cannot be descrambled and decoded without the key.
EPOC
The mobile phone operating system developed by Symbian. Derived from epoch - the beginning of an era - EPOC is a 32-bit operating environment which comprises a suite of applications, customizable user interfaces, connectivity options and a range of development tools.
ERLANG
A dimensionless unit of average traffic density in a telecommunications network.
ERMES
Enhanced Radio messaging System; a paging technology developed by ETSI that was intended to allow users to roam throughout Europe. Adopted by a number of European and Middle Eastern countries, ERMES, like paging in general, was overtaken by the ubiquity of GSM.
ERO
European Radiocommunications Office.
ERP
Effective Radiated Power.
Error correction
The process of correcting errors in data transmitted over a radio channel using forward error correction (FEC) techniques.
ESMR
Enhanced Special Mobile Radio; a US PMR variant (see SMR).
ESN
Electronic Serial Number; a 32-bit number that uniquely identifies a mobile phone.
ETS
European Telecommunications Standard.
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute the European group responsible for defining telecommunications standards.

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