PCS will handle both voice and data. A physical location within a LATA at which an access customer establishes itself for the purpose of obtaining LATA access and to which an access service provider terminates access services. Price regulation is regulation of a company's basic service prices, rather than regulating that company's earnings, profits or return on investment. Price regulation includes a means to adjust prices based upon objective indices of reasonableness, such as changes in the prices of consumer goods. Rate cases can be initiated by a regulated utility or a regulatory agency, such as the state Public Utilities Commission.
Redundancy is the incorporation of duplicate components into a system.
That way, if one of the primary components fails, the duplicate component takes over. The machines and computers that direct telephone traffic. Switches sort through thousands of possibilities to match the caller with the party being called. Formerly mechanical devices, switches are now mostly electronic, which means they offer greater speed and reliability. A digital carrier system that can transmit voice or data at speeds of 1.544 mbps.