- Industry: Telecommunications
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A service feature, available in some switching systems, whereby calls can be rerouted automatically from one line, i.e., station number, to another or to an attendant. Note: Call forwarding may be implemented in many forms.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service feature, in the operation of an intermediate office, that, acting on incoming trunk service treatment indications, assumes routing control of the call from the originating office. Note: This increases the chances of completion by offering the call to more trunk groups than are available in the originating office.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service for communications between specified locations for a continuous period or for regularly recurring periods at stated hours. 2. A service whereby facilities for communication between two or more designated points are set aside for the exclusive use or availability for use of a particular customer and authorized users during stated periods of time.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service for conducting a chat on the Internet, i.e., an application that allows a number of individual users to exchange text messages simultaneously in real time over The Internet.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service in GSM mobile telephony systems that allows the user to send and receive short (maximum 160-character) messages independently of voice calls; a nearly real-time service that stores messages in message centers if the receiving mobile telephone cannot be contacted. Note: SMS is both the handset function and the network service. SMS is used to inform users of pending voice messages, network outages, etc. , but the principal use is in user-to-user messaging. Addressing is by telephone numbers (GSM only. ) Networks usually relay messages over network boundaries. There are gateways from e-mail and Web to SMS and from SMS to e-mail, but only on an experimental-service basis. The cost of SMS messages is usually fixed and is lower than for a short voice call.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service link connection that can be used by any service customer (SC) in a predefined set of SCs on a first-come, first-service-basis; that is, during a specific time period, only one SC can use the service link connection, and the right to use the service link connection is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service offered by Bell Operating Companies that provides functions and features comparable to those provided by a PBX or a PABX. Note: "Centrex® C. O. "indicates that all equipment except the attendant's position and station equipment is located in the central office. "Centrex® C. U. "indicates that all equipment, including the dial switching equipment, is located on the customer's premises.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service provided using the capabilities of the intelligent network.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service providing interpersonal messaging capability; meeting specific functional, management, and technical requirements; and yielding a business-quality electronic mail service suitable for the conduct of official government business. Synonym messaging service.
Industry:Telecommunications
A service providing the requested telephone number for a given name and address.
Industry:Telecommunications
