The acquisition by a Toll-Free Subscriber of more Toll-Free Numbers than the Toll-Free Subscriber intends to use for the provision of Toll-Free Service. The definition of hoarding also includes number brokering, which is selling of a Toll-Free number by a private entity for a fee.

A polishing fixture used to facilitate the manual finishing of the endfaces of certain types of optical fiber connectors.
Note 1: The hockey puck consists of the appropriate mating sleeve for the connector in question, mounted at right angles to, and in the center of, a disk of stainless steel or other hard material. When the unfinished connector, secured to… (Read More →)

The range of frequencies over which a phase-locked loop can vary and still maintain frequency lock.

See hold-in frequency range.

1. The total length of time that a call makes use of a trunk or channel.
Note: Holding time is usually measured in seconds.
2. The time in which an item of telephone plant is in actual use either by a customer or an operator. For example, on a completed telephone call, holding time includes conversation time as well as… (Read More →)

1. The carrier's own Signaling System No.7 (SS7) network. [T1.226-1992],
2. A physical network segment situated on the users' premises comprised of devices and interconnection between devices and supporting governing protocols with the premises for IPTV.

1. The document that is configured to be displayed first when a Web browser is opened.
2. The document designed to be the user's point of entry into a Web site, or the page that the user first sees when he or she first visits a company's Web site.

1. A process in which a mobile station is directed, or directs itself, toward an electromagnetic, thermal, sonic, or other source of energy, whether primary or reflected, or follows a vector force field or a gradient of a scalar force field.
2. In radio direction-finding, the locating of a moving signal source by a moving direction-finding station that has a… (Read More →)

The Homing Tandem Operating Company is the company identified in the iconectiv® LERG™ Routing Guide as being the owner of the tandem to which the NXX code homes.

(iconectiv is a registered trademark and LERG is a trademark of iconectiv, LLC. )

The relationship between two signals such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.