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A reference for anyone lost in the alphabet soup that surrounds the world of quality:

2G
3G
AFP
AMR
BER
BSS
Call Generator
Codec
CSSR
DCR
Downlink
EFR
EIF
ETSI
FER
GSM
IBC
IMEI
IREG
ITU
LQ
KPI
MNRU
MOS
MSC
MSISDN
PCM
PESQ
PESQ-LQ
PSTN
QDU
QOS
RSSI
RXLEV
RXQUAL
SwissQual Index
SNR
Uplink
Second Generation Mobile (GSM)
Third Generation Mobile
Automated Frequency Planning
Adaptive Multi Rate Voice Coder
Bit Error Rate
Base Station System
SwissQual device used to generate test calls
Analogue to digital converter for voice
Call Setup Success Rate
Dropped Call Rate
Radio path from the PSTN to the mobile
Enhanced full rate voice coder
Equipment Impairment Factors
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Frame Erasure Rate
Global System For Mobile
In Building Coverage
International Mobile Equipment Identifier
International Roaming (Experts) Group
International Telecommunications Union
Listening quality (ITU-T P.800)
Key Performance Indicator
Modulated Noise Reference Unit
Mean Opinion Score (ITU-T P.800)
Mobile Switching Centre
A mobile device’s “telephone number”
Pulse Code Modulation
Perceptual Evaluation Of Speech Quality (ITU-T P.862)
PESQ using a 1-5 MOS-like scale
(Fixed) Public Switched Telephone Network
Quantisation Distortion Unit
Quality Of Service
Received Signal Strength Indicator
Received signal level strength (db)
A quality measure inferred from the bit error rate of a signal
A combined measure for quality using MOS plus other KQIs
Signal to Noise Ratio
Radio path from the mobile to the PSTN