A United States Government program that provides a means for telecommunications users to obtain priority treatment from service providers to meet NS/EP telecommunications requirements.
Note: The TSP program replaced the Restoration Priority (RP) program effective September 1990.

Any individual, organization, or activity that interacts with the NS/EP TSP Program.

Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) is an FCC regulated service provided by a telecommunications provider, such as an operating telephone company or a carrier, for NS/EP telecommunications.
Note: The TSP service replaced Restoration Priority (RP) service effective September 1990.

See communications system.

The organization responsible for providing telecommunications services to users.

The live exchange of information among persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system.
Note: The telecommunications system may support the teleconference by providing audio, video, and data services by one or more means, such as telephone, telegraph, teletype, radio, and television.

Written matter intended to be transmitted by telegraphy for delivery to the addressee. This term also includes radiotelegrams unless otherwise specified. In this definition the term telegraphy has the same general meaning as defined in the [1979 General Worldwide Administrative Radio Conference] Convention. [RR with editor's note in brackets]

See telegraphy.

A form of telecommunication which is concerned in any process providing transmission and reproduction at a distance of documentary matter, such as written or printed matter or fixed images, or the reproduction at a distance of any kind of information in such a form. For the purposes of the Radio Regulations, unless otherwise specified therein, telegraphy shall mean a form… (Read More →)

1. The use of telecommunication for automatically indicating or recording measurements at a distance from the measuring instrument. [RR]
2. The transmission of nonvoice signals for the purpose of automatically indicating or recording measurements at a distance from the measuring instrument. [47 CFR
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