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with helpin to oversee the use of public one for rollin out fibre
broadband in harder-to-reach parts of the country.
%736  ension chee  the defined benefit pension schee which
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%75HWLUHPHQW3ODQa defined contribution pension schee set up on
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%7566 BT Retirement Saving Scheme – the scheme set up on 1 April
2009 as a successor to the BT Retirement Plan. It is a contract-based,
defined contribution arraneent.
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between the local telephone exchange and a customer’s telephone
sockets are transformed into a high-speed digital line.
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throuhout the UK. he tend to be used b businesses and oces for
which a domestic connection is inadequate when large numbers of
devices have to be online.
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)77& fibre-to-the-cabinet  a variant of  which uses fibre to
provide high connection speeds from the exchange to a street cabinet
near to a custoer preises and a copper line for the final connection
to the premises.
)773 fibre-to-the-preises  a variant of  which uses fibre to
provide high connection speeds for the whole route from the exchange
to the customer.
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*)DVW an innovative technology that uses higher frequencies than FTTC
to provide faster broadband speeds over copper.
*($ eneric thernet access  penreachs wholesale fibre broadband
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,3 internet protocol – a packet-based protocol for delivering data –
including voice and video – across networks.
,379 internet protocol television – the combination of broadcast
content with broadband content, delivering both through the television.
,3; IP exchange – a telecommunications interconnection model for the
echane of -based trac between custoers of separate obile and
fied operators.
,6'1 integrated services digital network – a telephone system network,
which integrates voice and data on the same lines.
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/DGGHUSULFLQJ Ladder pricing links the amounts that BT charges
mobile operators for mobile calls to 0800, 0845 and 08700 numbers
terminating on our network to the retail price charged by mobile
operators to their customers.
//8 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.
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technolo to carr thernet trac between the obile operators cell
and core sites in a single converged packet network.
03/6 multi-protocol label switching – supports the rapid transmission
of data across network routers, enabling modern networks to achieve
high quality of service.
0912 mobile virtual network operator – an arrangement where a
retailer sells mobile services under its own brand but uses a mobile
network owned by another operator to do so.
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available generally taken to refer to broadband products that provide a
maximum download speed greater than 24Mbps.
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2IFRP the independent regulator and competition authority in the UK
communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio,
telecommunications and wireless communications services.
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3,$ passive infrastructure access – this occurs when one company
accesses ducts owned b another and installs its own fibre optic or other
cables.
32/2V payments to other licensed operators – typically refers to
paents b one  to another  when terinatin voice trac on
their network to carry the call to the customer receiving the call.
3R3V points of presence – this refers to a location in a city where BT has
the ability to connect customers to one of its networks.