I hate acronyms NAP

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I hate acronyms
NAP = No Acronyms Please

One of my pet hates is the high use of acronyms, particularly in technology. If someone uses an acronym that you’re not familiar with, in their first sentence, your concentration drifts to ‘what does that mean’. Do you continue to listen, not knowing what it is.

Acronyms are used to much

Today it can be hard to avoid acronyms completely. Sometimes things become so well known by their acronym and people know what it is, but few know what it stands for.
(Take a PDF document for example. See my list below)

We try not to use acronyms at all, but unfortunately the Telecom and Broadband industry use them all the time. So it can be very difficult. I have listed below a few acronyms should you need help knowing what they stand for and what they actually mean.

askus@businessinternetphones.co.uk

NAP = No Acronyms Please

PDF	Portable Document Format	It’s a file format developed by Adobe in the early 1990s to present documents consistently across different devices and platforms. Whether you’re viewing a PDF on a Windows PC, a Mac, or a phone, the layout, fonts, and graphics stay exactly the same.
PSTN	Public Switched Telephone Network.	The Old Telephone Network. The Old Telephone Exchanges and Old Copper Cable Infrastructure are soon to be switched off.
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network	Introduced in 1985 it promised great things with digital communication and data using copper cables. The communication gave extra features including more speech channels and the data side had basic speeds of 64 Kbps.
VOIP	Voice Over IP (Internet Protocol)	In simple terms, the new internet phones convert speech into a digital format which can be sent to another Internet Phone via the Internet.
ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line	Old Broadband Service provided on old Phone Lines. Both will be switch off permanently when the old Telephone Network is switch off.
MVNOs	Mobile Virtual Network Operates	They buy wholesale from the main network providers and resell to their customers. So their coverage etc is the same as the main providers they use, but the selling prices may be different.