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L
Ladder pricing: Ladder pricing links the
amounts that BT charges mobile operators
for mobile calls to 0800, 0845 and 0870
numbers terminating on our network to the
retail price charged by mobile operators to
their customers
LAN: local area network
LLU: local loop unbundling – the process
by which CPs can rent the copper lines
between BT’s exchanges and customer
premises from Openreach to provide voice
and broadband services using their own
equipment
M
MEAS: Mobile Ethernet Access Service – a
product that uses pseudo wire technology
to carry Ethernet traffic between the mobile
operators’ cell and core sites in a single
converged packet network
MNO: mobile network operator
MNS: managed network services – BT
Wholesale’s broad portfolio of managed
network outsourcing and white label
platform offerings
MPLS: multi-protocol label switching –
supports the rapid transmission of data
across network routers, enabling modern
networks to achieve high quality of service
MVNO: mobile virtual network operator
O
Ofcom: the independent regulator
and competition authority for the
UK communications industries, with
responsibilities across television, radio,
telecommunications and wireless
communications services
P
PIA: passive infrastructure access
POLO: payments to other licenced
operators
PSTN: public switched telephone network
A
ADSL: asymmetric digital subscriber line – a
broadband service where existing wires
between the local telephone exchange
and a customer’s telephone sockets are
transformed into a high-speed digital line.
Asymmetric refers to differing downstream
and upstream bandwidths
ADSL2+: an enhanced version of ADSL,
enabling the provision of higher speed
connections
ARPU: average revenue per consumer user
B
BDUK: Broadband Delivery UK
BTPS (BT Pension Scheme): the defined
benefit pension scheme which was closed
to new members on 31 March 2001
BTRP (BT Retirement Plan): the defined
contribution pension arrangement which
was introduced for new BT employees
from 1 April 2001 and was closed to new
members on 31 March 2009
BTRSS (BT Retirement Saving Scheme):
the scheme set up on 1 April 2009 as
successor to the BTRP. It is a contract
based, defined contribution arrangement
C
CP: communications provider
CWU: Communication Workers Union
D
DSL: digital subscriber line – a broadband
service where existing wires between the
local telephone exchange and a customer’s
telephone sockets are transformed into a
high-speed digital line
E
EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxation,
depreciation and amortisation
EPS: earnings per share
Ethernet: a widely-deployed network
transmission technology that transports
large amounts of data in a fast, assured and
highly cost-efficient manner
F
FTTC: fibre-to-the-cabinet – a variant
of GEA which uses fibre to provide high
connection speeds from the exchange to a
street cabinet near to a customer premises,
and a copper line for the final connection to
the premises
FTTP: fibre-to-the-premises – a variant
of GEA which uses fibre to provide high
connection speeds for the whole route from
the exchange to the customer
FVA: Fibre Voice Access
G
GEA: Generic Ethernet Access
I
IASB: International Accounting Standards
Board – the board which sets International
Financial Reporting Standards
ICT: information and communications
technology
IFRS: International Financial Reporting
Standards
IP: internet protocol – a packet-based
protocol for delivering data – including
voice and video – across networks
IPTV: internet protocol TV
IPVPN: IP virtual private network
ISDA: International Swaps and Derivative
Association
ISP: internet service provider
Glossary of terms
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