Orange Business Services
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PRACTICE NOTES
This Practice Note provides a concise, at-a-glance overview of the fixed line telecoms industry for commercial lawyers.
Fixed lines
Section 32(1) of the Communications Act 2003 defines an ‘electronic communications network’ as:
a transmission system conveying signals of any description by electrical, magnetic or electro-magnetic energy; and
associated items used by the provider, in association with that system, for the conveyance of the signals, comprising:
apparatus forming part of the system;
apparatus for switching or routing the signals;
software and stored data; and
other resources (except for the purposes of sections 125 to 127), including network elements that are not active.
For fixed lines, this encompasses electrical energy in standard conducting cables or wires;
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PRACTICE NOTES
Mobile networks
This Practice Note delivers a concise, quick-reference overview of the wireless telecoms sector for commercial lawyers. Mobile electronic communications networks are commonly called cellular networks because they consist of a mosaic of cells, arranged to let the network exploit its allocated frequency spectrum with maximum efficiency. A cell is the coverage area served by a base station (BS), and neighbouring cells operate on different frequencies to reduce channel interference. In rural locations, cells span wider areas than in dense urban settings, where additional capacity is needed.
GSM networks
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM—so named as a backronym, the original title being Groupe Spécial Mobile) is the most widespread network standard. GSM is regarded as 2G (second generation, with the first generation being analogue mobile networks). 2G has evolved from the platform first rolled out in 1991, through the arrival of the packet data
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