BSEs are optional unbundled
network features, such as calling number identification, that an enhance service
provider (i.e., information service provider)
may require or find useful in configuring an enhanced
service. Network features that the BOCs describe
as BSEs are generally resident in the stored-program-controlled switch located
in a carrier's local switching office.
Software packages in the switch make these functionalities
available to enhanced service providers and to end-users. [See also Ancillary
Network Service (ANS); Basic Serving Arrangement
(BSA); Complementary Network Service (CNS); enhanced
service; information service; Open
Network Architecture (ONA);]
BSAs are the fundamental tariffed
switching and transport services that allow an
enhanced service provider (i.e., information service provider) to communicate
with its customers through the BOC network. Under
the common ONA model, an enhanced service provider and its customers must obtain
some form of BSA in order to access the network functionalities that it needs
to offer specific services. Examples of BSAs include line-side and trunk-side
circuit-switched service, line-side and trunk-side packet-switched service, and
various grades of local private line service. [See also Ancillary
Network Service (ANS); Basic Service Element
(BSE); Complementary Network Service (CNS); enhanced
service; information service; Open
Network Architecture (ONA).]
Bell Telephone Company of Nevada
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company
New York Telephone Company
U S West Communications Company
South Central Bell Telephone Company
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West
Virginia
The Diamond State Telephone Company
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Wisconsin Telephone Company
[See also regional bell
operating company; CI '96 Act Reference 0(3)(a)(35)]
US: A protocol for connecting multiple wireless devices without cable within a range of about 10 meters using unlicensed spectrum in the 2.45 GHz band.
Europe: A term applied to high speed telecommunications systems, eg those capable of simultaneously supporting multiple information formats such as voice, high-speed data services and video services on demand.
US: The FCC defines broadband as the capability of supporting, in both the provider-to-consumer (downstream) and the consumer-to-provider (upstream) directions, a speed (in technical terms, 'bandwidth') in excess of 200 kilobits per second (kbps) in the last mile. This rate is approximately four times faster than the Internet access received through a standard phone line at 56 kbps.
1)
Cellular Telephone Service;
2)
Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) Service; and
3) Broadband Personal
Communications Services (PCS);
which
are provided for profit to the public and interconnected with the public switched
telecommunications network. (see also CMRS and
separate definitions of these three components of Broadband CMRS)
Stations used for relaying broadcast television signals from the broadcast studio to the transmitter, or between two points, such as a main studio and an auxiliary studio, including mobile TV pickups that relay signals from a remote location back to the studio.