Telecom Glossary T1

Switching Fee

A per-line fee (usually around 5$) imposed by the LEC to reprogram their switching system to change your default carrier. Subscribers must usually pay this fee when switching to a reseller. Some resellers will reimburse the subscribers for this fee.

Switchless Reseller

A reseller of long-distance services that does not utilize any of its own lines, or (switching) equipment. All actual service and equipment is handled by the IXC. Billing is usually done, by the reseller themselves, to the customer.

T1/DS-1

Trunk Level 1 - The equivalent of 24 multiplexed voice grade channels. Dedicated phone connection with a total signaling speed of 1,544 Mbps; a T-1 is made of 24 channels which can be split to carry voice or data, each carrying 64K bits per second.

T2/DS-2

(Facility) The equivalent of 4 multiplexed T1 channels. 6.312 million bits per second (6.3Mbps)

Long Distance Glossary (A-1) (A-2) (A-3) (B-1) (B-2) (B-3) (B-C) (C-1) (C-2) (C-3) (C-4) (C-5) (C-6) (C-7) (C-8) (D-1) (D-2) (D-3) (D-E) (E-F) (F-1) (G-1) (H-I) (I-1) (I-2) (I-3) (I-4) (J-L) (L-1) (L-2) (L-3) (L-M) (M-N) (N-1) (N-O) (O-1) (O-P) (P-1) (P-2) (P-3) (P-4) (P-5) (P-R) (R-1) (R-2) (R-3) (S-1) (S-2) (S-3) (S-4) (S-T) (T-1) (T-2) (T-3) (T-4) (T-5) (T-6) (T-U) (V-1) (V-2) (V-Z)