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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
2G (second generation mobile communications): A digital cellular system such as GSM 900, 1800
and 1900.
3G (third generation mobile communications): A digital system for mobile communications that
provides increased bandwidth and lets a mobile device user access a wide variety of services, such as
multimedia.
3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) and 3GPP2 (Third Generation Partnership
Project 2): Projects in which standards organizations and other related bodies have agreed to
cooperate on the production of globally applicable technical specifications for a third generation mobile
system.
Access network: A telecommunications network between a local exchange and the subscriber
station.
ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line): A technology that enables high-speed data
communication over existing twisted pair telephone lines and supports a downstream data rate of 1.5—
8 Mbps and an upstream data rate of 16 kbps—1 Mbps.
Asha: The product name for our high-end feature phones and most affordable smartphones powered
by the Series 40 operating system.
ASP (average selling price): Our total mobile device ASP represents total Devices & Services net
sales—comprised of our Smart Devices, Mobile Phones and Devices & Services Other net sales—
divided by total Devices & Services volumes. Devices & Services Other net sales includes net sales of
Nokia’s luxury phone business Vertu through October 12, 2012, spare parts, as well as IPR income. As
IPR income is included in Devices & Services Other net sales, we provide our total mobile device ASP
both including and excluding IPR income. Smart Devices ASP represents Smart Devices net sales
divided by Smart Devices volumes. Mobile Phones ASP represents Mobile Phones net sales divided
by Mobile Phones volumes. IPR income is not recognized at the Smart Devices and Mobile Phone
business unit levels.
Bandwidth: The width of a communication channel, which affects transmission speeds over that
channel.
Base station: A network element in a mobile network responsible for radio transmission and reception
to or from the mobile station.
Base station controller: A network element in a mobile network for controlling one or more base
transceiver stations in the call set-up functions, in signaling, in the use of radio channels, and in various
maintenance tasks.
Broadband: The delivery of higher bandwidth by using transmission channels capable of supporting
data rates greater than the primary rate of 9.6 Kbps.
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access): A technique in which radio transmissions using the same
frequency band are coded in a way that a signal from a certain transmitter can be received only by
certain receivers.
Cellular network: A mobile telephone network consisting of switching centers, radio base stations and
transmission equipment.
Convergence: The coming together of two or more disparate disciplines or technologies.
Convergence types are, for example, IP convergence, fixed-mobile convergence and device
convergence.
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