| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| ASCI | Advanced Speech Call Items |
| BS | Base Station |
| BSC | Base Station Controller |
| CA | Carrier Aggregation |
| CBTC | Communications Based Train Control |
| CCBG | Critical Communication Broadband Group |
| CCTV | Closed-Circuit Television |
| CoMP | Coordinated Multi-point |
| DL | Downlink |
| DSS | Decision Support System |
| EGPRS | Enhanced General Packet Radio Service |
| EIRENE | European Integrated Railway Radio Enhanced NEtwork |
| eLDA | enhanced Location Dependent Addressing |
| eMBMS | Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service |
| eMLPP | enhanced Multi-Level Precedence and Pre-emption |
| EMU | Electric Multiple Unit |
| eREC | enhanced Railway Emergency Call |
| ERA | European Railway Agency |
| ERTMS | European Rail Traffic Management System |
| ETCS | European Train Control System |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| FA | Functional Addressing |
| FRS | Functional Requirements Specification |
| GCR | Group Call Register |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite Systems |
| GSMA | GSM Association |
| GSM-R | Global System for Mobile Communications-Railways |
| HMI | Human-Machine Interface |
| IMS | IP Multimedia Subsystem |
| IMT-Advanced | International Mobile Telecommunications - Advanced |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| QoE | Quality of Experience |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| LAS | Link Assurance Signal |
| LDA | Location Dependant Addressing |
| LTE-A | LTE-Advanced |
| M2M | Machine-to-Machine |
| MAC | Medium Access Control |
| MBMS | Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service |
| MBSFN | Multicast and Broadcast over Single Frequency Networks |
| MCPTT | Mission Critical Push To Talk over LTE |
| MRO | Maintenance, Repair and Operation |
| MS | Mobile Station |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| PoC | Push-to-Talk over Cellular |
| ProSe | Proximity Services |
| RAMS | Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety |
| SIL | Safety Integrity Level |
| TCC | Train Control Center |
| TEDS | TETRA Enhanced Data Service |
| TETRA | Trans European Trunked RAdio |
| UIC | Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer |
| UL | Uplink |
| VBS | Voice Broadcast Service |
| VGCS | Voice Group Call Service |
| VoLTE | Voice over LTE |
| WiMAX | Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Networks |