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MAP (Mobyle Application Platform)
Wysdom’s core proprietary technology containing all the key functionality required to deliver reliable mobile solutions. MAP interacts with enterprise systems and data sources, adding wireless logic to meet specific customer requirements, before sending the information to mobile devices throughout the world.

MAP Server
Provides the set of integrated elements that are used by an application according to the business rules and logic, as established by the customer. MAP Server can reside internally on the enterprise network behind the corporate firewall or can be hosted by Wysdom.

MAP Connector
Provides the set of integrated elements that are related to carrier and third-party connectivity.

MAP Connector
Can receive third-party data such as location-based information or specific content (e.g. nearest ATM, or stock information).

MAP Tools:

Mobyle Blueprints
A rapid application development tool that facilitates the creation of mobile applications that utilize the functional elements available on MAP.
Mobyle xTractor
A development tool that creates an interface between MAP and web-enabled database applications, commonly ERP, CRM and SFA systems as well as legacy enterprise applications.

MAP Manager
A monitoring station that allows administrators to monitor MAP configuration and performance in production.

MAP component
MAP consists of four primary components: MAP Manager, MAP Connector, MAP Server, and MAP Tools.

MAP element
A MAP element is a functional building block of a MAP component. MAP components are comprised of several elements.

MAP application modules
MAP application modules provide the unique business logic of the enterprise wireless application.

Message Alert: (also called a "call-in-absence" indicator)
A light or other indicator on a wireless phone that notifies a user that a call has come in. A useful feature especially if the wireless subscriber has voice mail.

MIN (mobile identification number)
Uniquely identifies a mobile unit within a wireless carrier's network. The MIN often can be dialed from other wireless or wireline networks. The number differs from the electronic serial number, which is the unit number assigned by a phone manufacturer. MINs and ESNs can be electronically checked to help prevent fraud.

MIPS (millions of instructions per second)
Used in defining digital signal processing capabilities.

Mobile Satellite Service
Communications transmission service provided by satellites. A single satellite can provide coverage to the whole United States.

Moratoria
Moratoria (the singular form is moratorium) are waiting periods on the issuance of construction permits by local zoning authorities. Moratoria are typically imposed to allow time for localities to develop or refine ordinances dealing with antenna siting issues. However, they have been used by some localities as tools to delay or block the rollout and/or expansion of wireless networks. Such usage has resulted in lawsuits by carriers.

MSA (metropolitan statistical area)
An MSA demotes one of the 306 largest urban population markets as designated by the U.S. government. Two wireless operators are licensed in each MSA.

MTA (major trading area)
A Personal Communications Services area designed by Rand McNally and adopted by the FCC. MTAs are usually composed of several contiguous basic trading areas. There are 51 MTAs in the United States.

MTSO (mobile telephone switching office)
The central computer that connects a wireless phone call to the public telephone network. The MTSO controls the entire system’s operations, including monitoring calls, billing and handoffs.

NAM
Number Assignment Module. The NAM is the electronic memory in the wireless phone that stores the telephone number and an electronic serial number.

NAMPS (narrowband advanced mobile phone system)
NAMPS combines cellular voice processing withdigital signaling, increasing the capacity of AMPS systems and adding functionality.

NANC (North American Numbering Council)
The FCC advisory group formerly responsible for administering the North American Numbering Plan that oversees assignment of area codes, central office codes and other numbering issues in the United States, Canada, Bermuda and part of the Caribbean. NANP administration responsibility was transferred to Lockheed Martin.

Narrowband PCS
The next generation of paging networks, including two-way, acknowledgment and "wireless answering machine" paging.

NENA (National Emergency Numbering Association)
NENA's mission is to foster the technological advancement, availability and implementation of a universal emergency telephone number system.

NOI (notice of inquiry)
Often the predecessor to an FCC rulemaking, the NOI takes public comment on a general topic. For instance, an NOI would ask "Do interconnection rates need regulation?" The subsequent proposed rulemaking, if any, would offer a specific regulatory scheme and again be put to
public comment.

NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration)
The federal government's spectrum management authority.

Number pooling
Increasingly popular tactic for conserving phone numbers. Numbers are returned by all carriers to a central authority, which puts them in a pool, from which carriers receive numbers in lots of 1,000, not 10,000 as was originally done. It relies on local number portability.

Off-peak
The periods of time after the business day has ended during which carriers offer discounted airtime charges.

One-stop shop
Describes the all-in-one store where carriers sell wireless, long-distance, Internet access and any other services they are able to sell in that market.

Overlay area code
A solution to the scarcity of new phone numbers, overlays involve issuance of new 10-digit phone numbers for use alongside an area's existing seven-digit numbers, which have a different
area code.

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