Patent ID: 8681962

Claim:
Method for a telecommunication's network with a central office, an access network, a multiple of network terminating units and customer premises equipment connected thereto, to assign the customer premises equipment to a service contract registered in the central office, wherein when the network terminating units are identifiable unambiguously and individually and when the customer premises equipment is identifiable unambiguously, the service contract is assigned to a particular customer premises equipment as a result of an action of a network terminating unit being recognizable by the central office and being coordinated with signals sent from the customer premises equipment connected to said network terminating unit, and that such coordination is detected in the central office for assignment, wherein the network terminating unit detects at least a first-time start of information transfer between the customer premises equipment connected to the network terminating unit and the central office and reports this to the central office and that the central office performs the assignment based on a chronology of the start of an information transfer from the customer premises equipment and the reporting by the network terminating unit.