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Annual financial report as at 31 December 2013
Date
File Name
Status
Page
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Annual Report as at 31
December 2013
175
OLO
Acronym for Other Licensed Operators, operators other
than the dominant one that operate in a national
telecommunications services market.
Opex
Acronym for Operating Expenses which are direct and
indirect costs that are recoded in the income statement.
Pay-Per-View
System by which a spectator pays to view a single
programme (such as a sporting event or a film or concert)
at the time it is transmitted or broadcast.
Pay TV
TV channels on payment. To receive Pay TV or Pay-Per-
view, you have to connect a decoder and have an access
system subject to conditions.
Platform
It is the total of the inputs, including hardware, software and
equipment for running and the procedures for production
(production platform) or for the management (management
platform) or for a special service (service platform).
POP
Acronym for Point of Presence, a site at which
telecommunications apparatus is installed and that forms a
node on the network.
Portal
Website that forms a point of departure or an entry point for
a major group of Internet resources or an Intranet.
Router
Hardware or in some cases software instrument that
identifies the next point on the network to which a data
packet is to be sent, and routes that data packet towards
the end destination.
Service Provider
Party that provides end users and content providers with a
range of service, including that of an owned, leased or third
party service centre.
Server
Computer component that provides services to other
components (typically client calls) via a network.
Set-top-box or STB
Device able to handle and route data, voice and television
connections, installed at the end user's premises.
Syndication
The sale of radio and TV transmissions wholesale by a
media company that owns the rights and usually the
delivery platform also.
SoHo
Acronym for Small office Home office, for small offices,
mostly professional offices or small firms.
SHDSL
Acronym for Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber
Line. SHDSL is a technology for telecommunications of the
XDSL family and is made by using direct LLU
interconnections and enables high speed connections to be
made in a balanced way in both directions (transmission
and reception).