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Glossary - U
The utilities industry is awash with jargon and apparently meaningless abbreviations. We aim to explain what some of them mean. Please use either the search box (above and left) or the A to Z matrix to the right.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 definitions.
- UICC
- The equivalent of a SIM in UMTS (3G) mobile phones is called the Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC).
- UKDCS
- UK Data Collection Service. Former name of IM-Serv
- UMTS
- Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies in use throughout the world.
- UPS
- An uninterruptible power supply (UPS), uninterruptible power source or sometimes called a battery backup is a device which maintains a continuous supply of electric power to connected equipment by supplying power from a separate source when utility power is not available.A UPS is inserted between the source of power (typically commercial utility power) and the load it is protecting. When a power failure or abnormality occurs, the UPS will effectively switch from utility power to its own power source almost instantaneously.
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