| CODE | ABBREVIATION |
|
B
| Byte / Bearer channel (ISDN) |
|
B-)
| Smiling with glasses or sunglasses or wearing cool shades / Horn Rimmed Glasses |
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B/C
| Because / because |
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B/L
| Backlog |
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B:-)
| Sunglasses on Head |
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B4
| Before |
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B4N
| Bye for Now |
|
B6ZS
| Bipolar with 6 Zero Substitution |
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B8ZS
| Binary 8-Zero Substitution / Bipolar with 8 Zero Substitution |
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B911
| Basic 911 |
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BA
| British Academy |
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BAA
| Broad Agency Announcement |
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BAC
| Basic Access Control |
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BACP
| Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol |
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BAD
| Broken As Designed |
|
BADMANZ
| Born A DaM pANZy |
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BAGS
| Bristol's Anti-Gay Society |
|
BAI
| Bank Administration Institute |
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BAIK
| Boy Am I Confused |
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BAK
| Back at keyboard |
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BALUN
| BALanced / UNbalanced |
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BAMAF
| Bellcore Automatic Message Accounting Format |
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BAMF
| Bad Assed Mother F- |
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BANCS
| Bell Administrative Network Communications System / Bell Application Network Control System |
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BANM
| Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobil |
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BAPCO
| Bellsouth Advertising & Publishing Company |
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BAPI
| Bridge Application Program Interface |
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BARRNET
| Bay Area Research Network |
|
BAS
| Big A$$ Smile / Basic Activity Subset |
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BASC
| Bad Austrian Swapping Crew |
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BASIC
| Bill's Attempt To Seize Industry Control. / Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
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BAUD
| Bits At Unit Density (rate: How fast a modem talks) |
|
BB
| be back / beavis & butthead / Bad Brains |
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BB&N
| Bolt |
|
BBA
| Budget By Account |
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BBC
| British Broadcasting Corp. / Broadband Bearer Capability |
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BBFN
| Bye Bye For Now |
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BBH
| Bouncing Busy Hour |
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BBIAB
| Be back in a bit |
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BBIAF
| Be back in a few |
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BBIAS
| Be back in a second |
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BBIAW
| Be back in a while |
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BBL
| Be back later |
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BBN
| Bye Bye Now |
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BBR
| Burnt Beyond Repair |
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BBS
| Be Back Soon / Bulletin Board System / Bulletin Board Service |
|
BBSRC
| Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (formerly AFRC) |
|
BBU
| Battery Back-Up |
|
BC
| Blind Copy / Block Check |
|
BCC
| Blind Carbon Copy / Blind Courtesy Copy / Block Check Character / Blocked Call Cleared / Boys from Company C |
|
BCD
| Binary Coded Decimal / Blocked Call(s) Delayed |
|
BCDIC
| Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
|
BCDMA
| Broadband Code Division Multiple Access |
|
B-CDMA
| Broadband Code Division Multiple Access |
|
BCG
| Business Center Group |
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BCH
| Blocked Calls Held |
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BCN
| Beacon |
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BCNF
| Boyce - Codd Normal Form |
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BCNU
| Be seein' you |
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BCOB
| Broadband Class Of Bearer |
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BCP
| Business Communications Project / Byte-Control Protocols |
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BCPL
| Basic Combined Programming Language / Basic Computer Programming Language |
|
BCR
| Blocked Calls Released / Business Communications Review |
|
BCS
| BarCode Sorter / Basic Combined Subset / Batch Change Supplement / Boston Computer Society / British Computer Society / Business Communications Systems |
|
BCW
| Burst Code - Word |
|
BD
| Back door |
|
BDC
| Backup Domain Controller |
|
BDCS
| Broadband Digital Cross-connect System |
|
BDE
| Block Diagram Editor / Borland Database Engine |
|
BDK
| Beans Development Kit |
|
BDLC
| Burroughs Data Link Control |
|
BDN
| Bell Data Network |
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BDR
| Backup Designated Router |
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BDS
| Black Dragon Society / Building Distribution System |
|
BDT
| Berkeley Design Technology / Billing Data Transmitter |
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BEC
| Backward Error Correction |
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BECN
| Backward Explicit Congestion Notation/Notification |
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BEDO
| Burst Extended - Data Out (RAM) |
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BEF
| Band Elimination Filter |
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BEG
| Big Evil Grin |
|
BEITA
| Business Equipment and Information Technology Association |
|
BELLCORE
| BELL COmmunications REsearch |
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BER
| Basic Encoding Rules / Bit Error Rate |
|
BERKOM
| BERlin KOMmunikation |
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BERT
| Bit Error Rate Test / Bit Error Rate Tester |
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BET
| Black Entertainment Television |
|
BETEL
| Broadband Exchange over Trans-European Links |
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BETRS
| Basic Exchange Telecommunications Radio Service |
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BEZS
| Bandwidth Efficent Zero Support/Suppression |
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BF
| Boy Friend / Bridge Function |
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BFD
| Big F'kin' Deal |
|
BFF
| Binary File Format |
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BFM
| Bus Functional Model |
|
BFN
| Bye for now |
|
BFO
| Blinding Flash of the Obvious |
|
BFT
| Binary File Transfer |
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BG/EEE
| Below Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures |
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BGA
| Ball Grid Array |
|
BGEEE
| Below Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures |
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BGI
| Borland Graphics Interface |
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BGP
| Border Gateway Protocol |
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BGT
| Broadcast and Group Translators |
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BHAW
| Banging Head Against Wall |
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BHC
| Busy Hour Calls |
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BHCA
| Busy Hour Call Attempts |
|
BHLI
| Broadband High Layer Information |
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BHS
| Black Hand Society |
|
BI
| Backplane Interconnect / Beginning Inventory |
|
BIA
| Burned - In Address |
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BIAS
| Berkeley Integrated Audio Software / Burroughs Integrated Adaptive System |
|
BIB
| Bus Interface Board |
|
BIBO
| Beer In Beer Out |
|
B-ICI
| Broadband - ISDN Inter-Carrier Interface / Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface |
|
BICI
| Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface |
|
B-ICISAAL
| Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer |
|
BICISAAL
| Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer |
|
BICMOS
| Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
|
BICSI
| Building Industry Consulting Service International (usually as BiCSi) |
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BIDS
| Bath Information and Data Services |
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BIF
| Basis in fact / Benchmark Interface Format |
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BIL
| Band Interleaved by Line |
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BIM
| Basic Industry Marketing |
|
BIMOS
| Bipolar Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
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BIND
| Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
|
BIOS
| Basic Input / Output System |
|
BIOYA
| Blow It Out Your A** |
|
BIOYIOP
| Blow It Out Your I/O Port |
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BIP
| Band Interleaved by Pixel / Bit Interleave Parity |
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BIPS
| Billions of Instructions Per Second |
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BIPV
| Bit Interleaved Parity Violation |
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BIRON
| Bibliographic Information Retrieval Online |
|
BIS
| Border Intermediate System (ATM Forum) |
|
B-ISDN
| Broadband - Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
BISDN
| Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
BISP
| Business Information System Program |
|
BISSI
| Broadband Inter Switching System Interface |
|
BIST
| Built In Self Test |
|
B-ISUP
| Broadband ISDN User's Part |
|
BISYNC
| Binary Synchronous Communication / Binary Synchronous Control / Bisynchronous Communic |
|
BIT
| Basic Information Unit / Binary DigIT (sometimes as bit) / Built In Test |
|
BITBLT
| BIT BLock Transfer / Bit-boundry BLock Transfer |
|
BIT-BLT
| Bit-boundry BLock Transfer |
|
BITE
| Built In Test Equipment |
|
BITNET
| Because It's Time NETwork |
|
BITNIC
| BITNET Network Information Center |
|
BIU
| Basic Information Unit / Bus Interface Unit |
|
BIX
| BYTE Information eXchange |
|
BJS
| Bureau of Justice Statistics |
|
BKERT
| BlocK Error Rate Tester |
|
BL
| Blue Lightning / British Library |
|
BLAH
| Big Long and Hairy |
|
BLAST
| Blocked Asynchronous / Synchronous Transmission |
|
BLCMP
| Birmingham Libraries Co-operative Mechanisation Project |
|
BLED
| Blue Light Emitting Diode |
|
BLER
| BLock Error Rate |
|
BLERT
| BLock Error Rate Test / BLock Error Rate Tester |
|
BLF
| Busy Lamp Field / Busy Line Field |
|
BLLI
| Broadband Low Layer Information |
|
B-LLI
| Broadband Low Layer Information |
|
BLNT
| Broadband Local Network Technology |
|
BLOB
| Binary Large OBject |
|
BLOP
| Basic Local OPeration |
|
B-LOP
| Basic Local OPeration |
|
BLRDD
| British Library Research and Development Department |
|
BLS
| Business Listing Service |
|
BLU
| Basic Link Unit |
|
BLV
| Busy Line Verification |
|
BMA
| Broadcast Multiple Access |
|
BMC
| Basic Monthly Charge / Bulk Mail Center |
|
BMEWS
| Ballistic Missile Early Warning System |
|
BMIDE
| Bus Managed Integrated Drive Electronics |
|
BMOS
| Bytex Matrix Operating System |
|
BMP
| Batch Message Processing (program) / BER Management Protocol / Bitmap (usually as .BMP) |
|
BMS
| Banyan Mail Services / Basic Mapping Support |
|
BMU
| Basic Measurement Unit |
|
BN
| Bridge Number |
|
BNA
| Burroughs Network Architecture |
|
BNC
| Baynet N-type Compact / Bayonet Navy Connector / Bayonet Nut Connector / Bayonet - Neill - Concelnan / Britsh National Connector |
|
BNF
| Big Name Fan / Backus-Naur Form |
|
BNI
| Batteries Not Included |
|
BNL
| Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
BNR
| Bell National Research |
|
BNS
| Billed Number Screening |
|
BNT
| B-ISDN Network Termination |
|
B-NT
| Broadband Network Termination |
|
B-NT1
| B-ISDN Network Termination 1 |
|
B-NT2
| B-ISDN Network Termination 2 |
|
BO
| Buffer (Brain) Overload |
|
BOA
| Basic Object Adapter / Bill of Aggregation / Blanket Order Agreement |
|
BOC
| But Of Course / Bell Operating Company |
|
BOCOEX
| Boston Computer Exchange (usually as BoCoEx) |
|
BOD
| Board Of Directors |
|
BOF
| Birds of a Feather (Special Interest Group) / Beginning Of File |
|
BOFH
| B**tard Operator From Hell |
|
BOI
| Basic Operators Interface |
|
BOIS
| Business Office Information Systems |
|
BOKYAG
| Bend Over and Kiss Your A** Goodbye |
|
BOM
| Beginning Of Message / Bill of Materials |
|
BONDING
| Bandwidth On Demand InterNetworking Group / Bandwidth ON Demand INteroperability Group |
|
BONES
| Block Oriented Network Simulator (usually as BONeS) |
|
BOO
| Bill of Organization |
|
BOOTP
| BOOT Protocol / Bootstrap Protocol |
|
BOP
| Bit-Oriented Protocol |
|
BOPS
| Billion Operations Per Second |
|
BOQ
| Bill of Quantities |
|
BOR
| Basic Output Report |
|
BORSCHT
| Battery Overvoltage Ringing Supervision Coding Hybrid Test |
|
BOS
| Big Orange Switch (Panic Button) / Business and Office Systems / Business Office Supervisor |
|
BOSE
| Business and Office Systems Engineering |
|
BOSS
| Billing and Order Support System |
|
BOT
| Back on Topic / Beginning Of Tape / roBOT |
|
BOTE
| Brothers of the Eye |
|
BOW
| Brotherhood Of Warez (usually as BoW) |
|
BPA
| Business Publications Audit |
|
BPB
| BIOS Parameter Block |
|
BPDU
| Bridge Protocol Data Unit |
|
BPF
| Berkeley Packet Filter |
|
BPFM
| Business Process Flow Management (system) |
|
BPI
| Bits Per Inch |
|
BPL
| Bits Per Line |
|
BPM
| Books Per Minute / Business Planning Manager / Base Product Marketing |
|
BPN
| Comstar Business Plan |
|
BPNRZ
| BiPolar Non-Return-To-Zero |
|
BPOC
| Bell Point Of Contact |
|
BPP
| Bits Per Pixel / Bridge Port Pair |
|
BPR
| Business Process Re-engineering |
|
BPRZ
| BiPolar Return-To-Zero |
|
BPS
| Bits Per Second (usually as bps) / Bytes Per Second (usually as Bps) |
|
BPSK
| Binary Phase Shift Keying |
|
BPSS
| Basic Packet Switching Service / Bell Packet Switching System |
|
BPV
| BiPolar Violation |
|
BQS
| Berkeley Quality Software |
|
BRA
| Basic Rate Access |
|
BRAT
| Business Residence Account Tracking system |
|
BRATS
| Business Residence Account Tracking System |
|
BRB
| Be Right Back |
|
BRCS
| Business Residence Custom Service |
|
BRF
| Benchmark Report Format |
|
BRI
| Basic Rate Interface (ISDN) |
|
BRIE
| Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy |
|
BRM
| Basic Remote Module / Business Reply Mail |
|
BRMAS
| Business Reply Mail Accounting System |
|
BRMTP
| Batch Simple Message Transfer Protocol |
|
BRP
| Blade Runner Productions |
|
BRS
| Big Red Switch (Panic Button) / Bibliographic Research Service |
|
BS
| BackSpace (ASCII) / Banded Signaling / Bullsh*t |
|
BSA
| Basic Service Arrangement / Business Software Alliance/Association |
|
BSBH
| Busy Season Busy Hour |
|
BSC
| Binary Synchronous Communication/Control / Bi-Synchronous Communication / Business Service Center |
|
BSCM
| BiSynchronous Communications Module |
|
BSD
| Berkeley Software Distribution / Berkeley System Distribution |
|
BSE
| Basic Service Elements |
|
BSEG
| Big Sh*t Eating A Grin |
|
BSF
| But Seriously Folks / Bell Shock Force |
|
BSI
| British Standards Institute |
|
BSN
| Broadband Service Node |
|
BSOC
| Bell Systems Operating Company |
|
BSOD
| Blue Screen Of Death |
|
BSP
| Bell Systems Practice / Bulk Synchronous Parallelism |
|
BSQ
| Band SeQuential |
|
BSR
| Board of Standards Review |
|
BSRAM
| Burst Static Random Access Memory |
|
BSRF
| Basic System Reference Frequency |
|
BSRFS
| Bell System Reference Frequency Standard |
|
BSS
| Basic Synchronized Subset |
|
BST
| But Seriously though / Basic Services Terminal |
|
BSTJ
| Bell System Technical Journal |
|
BSVC
| Broadcast Switched Virtual Connections |
|
BSW
| Buried Service Wire |
|
BT
| British Telecom / Burst Tolerance / Bus Terminator |
|
B-TA
| B-ISDN Terminal Adapter |
|
BTA
| But Then Again (in response to IOW) / B-ISDN Terminal Adapter |
|
BTAIM
| be that as it may |
|
BTAM
| Basic Telecommunications Access Method/Message |
|
BTB
| Branch Target Buffer |
|
BTDT
| Been There Done That |
|
BTDTGTS
| Been There Done That Got the T-Shirt |
|
BTE
| B-ISDN Terminal Equipment |
|
B-TE
| B-ISDN Terminal Equipment ( 1 or 2 ) |
|
BTFM
| Beats the Funk out of Me |
|
BTFT
| Been There Fixed That |
|
BTHOM
| Beats the hell outta me! |
|
BTL
| Bell Telephone Laboratories |
|
BTM
| Benchmark Timing Methodology |
|
BTN
| Billing Telephone Number |
|
BTP
| Batch Transfer Program |
|
BTR
| Bit Transfer Rate |
|
BTS
| Base Transciever Station |
|
BTSOM
| Beats the sh*t out of me |
|
BTSOOM
| beats the stuffing out of me - or - Beats The Sh!t Out Of Me |
|
BTU
| Basic Transmission Unit / British Thermal Unit |
|
BTW
| By The Way |
|
BTWBO
| Be there with bells on. |
|
BUBL
| Bulletin Board for Libraries |
|
BUC
| Bus Unit Controller |
|
BUGS
| Bloody User Generated Symptoms |
|
BUS
| Broadcast and Unknown Server |
|
BVA
| Billing Validation Application |
|
BVAPP
| Billing Verification and Authorization for Payment Process |
|
BVC
| Billing Validation Center |
|
BW
| BandWidth |
|
BWL
| Bursting With Laughter |
|
BWM
| Broadcast Warning Message |
|
BWQ
| Buzz Word Quotient |
|
BWT
| Broadcast Warning TWX |
|
BWTS
| BandWidth Test Set |
|
BYA
| Bye [of course] |
|
BZT
| Bundesamt fur Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation |