BCWYAF (Be Careful What You Ask For)
Kerry McKelvey, WorldCom Broadband Solutions (www.worldcom.com) CEO, just couldn't resist when his panel was asked to “skip the acronyms” at the Wireless Communications Association (www.wcai.com) conference.
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Moderator Allan Dodds Frank, CNN Financial News correspondent, (www.cnn.com) made the request, saying he wanted to be able to understand what the panelists were saying. As a result, McKelvey opened his remarks with a few carefully crafted sentences that included multichannel multipoint distribution service (commonly MMDS), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), frequency division duplexing (FDD), time division duplexing (TDD) and QAM.
“Even I'm not sure what QAM stands for,” McKelvey said. (It's quadrature amplitude modulation.)
Seems those acronyms do serve a purpose after all.
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