Digital cellular communications from North America
"Data" means the representation of information in a manner suitable for communication, interpretation, storage, or processing. (OECD COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION of March 27, 1997 concerning Guidelines for Cryptography Policy)
Data Network Identification Codes (DNIC)
Europe: Definition according to directive (96/9/EC)
"Database" shall mean a collection of independent works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other means
Europe: According to Directive 95/46/EC, the data subject's consent means any freely given specific and informed indication of his wishes by which the data subject signifies his agreement to personal data relating to him being processed.
Europe: 'Deceptive practice' is defined as a representation, omission or practice that is likely to mislead reasonable consumers in a material fashion.
Device intended to transform an encoded signal into one suitable for input to typical terminal equipment (e.g. digital TV decoder, also known as set-top box)
"Decryption" means the inverse function of encryption.
(OECD COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION of March 27, 1997 concerning Guidelines for Cryptography Policy)
Delegation by ICANN/IANA of a TLD in the Internet Root.
Europe: Designation by the relevant government or public authority of the Deleguee, recognised as competent to create the Registry organisation and database.
Detailed Spectrum Investigation (DSI)
Europe: "Device-making equipment"
shall mean any equipment (including software) designed or adapted for the access,
manufacture or alteration of any, or part of any, payment instrument or payment
transaction and shall include equipment designed or adapted to change or alter
any information or data carried on or in any payment instrument or payment transaction
(EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMMUNICATION
OF JULY 1, 1998 "A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION ON COMBATTING FRAUD AND COUNTERFEITING
OF NON- CASH MEANS OF PAYMENT ").
Dialling parity exists when the same number of digits have to be dialed when accessing a service which is provided by different competing service providers
Digital Communications Services in the 1800 MHz range (DCS-1800)
Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (DECT)
Digital Short Range Radio (DSRR)
New digital standard developed by ETSI in the Private Mobile Radio (PMR) communications field, to be used over short distances.
A network transmission technology that uses equipment connected to each end of a conventional copper telephone loop (subscriber line) to carry digital signals at comparatively high speeds. Depending on the technology used and the distance between the local exchange carrier switch and the customer's premises, DSL can expand existing subscriber line capacity by a factor of 50 or more, to speeds of up to 2.0 megabits per second, without additional engineering normally associated with the provision of such wideband transmission capacities.
DSL can be used to transmit interactive video to subscriber's premises and other applications requiring high transmission capacity. DSL also allows for the simultaneous transmission of both high-speed digital signals and an analog voice signal so that, for example, a computer and a telephone can operate on the same line and at the same time.
Because there are a variety of transmission speeds, techniques and vendor brands associated with DSL technology, each using the DSL suffix with a different prefix, DSL is referred to generically as xDSL (e.g., ADSL refers to asymmetric DSL, HDSL refers to high bit-rate DSL, VDSL refers to very high-speed DSL, etc.). [See also, Assymetric Digital Subscriber Line]
Digital Video Broadcasting Group (DVB)
Europe: Digital Video Broadcasting Project, the industrial forum that established the specifications of the system now used for broadcasting digital TV and certain other digital sercvices within the EU and elsewhere, which have been adopted as European telecommunications standards.
Digital Video Broadcasting Integrated Receiver-Decoder (DVBIRD)
Integrated Receiver-Decoder, also known as 'set-top box'; the indoor part of the equipment needed to enable existing analogue TV sets to be used to receive digital TV and access certain other digital broadcast services
Direct public telephone service provider"
Europe: Definition according to Com(2000)392:
"direct public telephone service provider" means an undertaking that provides publicly available telephone services and that also provides a subscriber with a connection to the public telephone network;
Europe: Definition according to directive (97/7/EC)
"Distance contract" means any contract concerning goods or services concluded between a supplier and a consumer as a consequence of an organised distance sales or service-provision scheme of the supplier, using, for this contract, exclusively one or more means of communication at a distance up to the conclusion of the contract and including the conclusion of the contract itself.
An Internet Domain is the alpha-numeric string which identifies the Internet Protocol (IP) Address (a number) associated with a specific computer which is connected to the Internet
European Commission Communication on international policy issues related to Internet Governance of February 20, 1998
"Domain Name System" ("DNS") means the Internet naming system as defined in RFC 1591
(MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING on the Generic Top Level Domain Name Space of the Internet Space of the Internet Domain Name System (gTLD - MoU)).
Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF)
Europe: "Durable medium" means any instrument enabling the consumer to store information, without he himself having to record this information; in particular, durable media for the purposes of this Directive include floppy disks, CDROMs, and the hard drive of the consumer's computer on which electronic mail is stored
(PROPOSAL for A DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL concerning the distance marketing of consumer financial services and modifying Directives 90/619/EEC, 97/7/EC and 98/27/EC).
DVB Service Information (DVB-SI)
Europe: In the broadcast multiplex, DVB-SI provides information identifying and describing the various individual services available, in machine-readable form, so that DVB IRDs can group them into the appropriate categories with relevant schedule information, thus enabling the user to select one or more of them as and when required.