bundled service

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 specifies three ways that competitive local

exchange carriers (CLECs) in the United States can provide competing local telephone service: build and interconnect, bundled wholesale purchase, and unbundled service. Securing bundled service from the incumbent LECs (ILECs) was at government-controlled wholesale prices, which typically were 15–25

percent below retail prices, and included local loops, local exchange and tandem switches (including software features), interoffice transmission facilities, signaling and call-related database facilities, operations support systems (OSSs) and information, and operator and directory assistance facilities. See also CLEC, CO, database, ILEC, local loop, OSS, signaling and control, tandem switch, and Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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• NGI (Next Generation Internet)
• NHRP (Next Hop Resolution Protocol)
• nibble
• NIC (Network Interface Card)
• NID (Network Interface Device)
• Nigerian Connection
• Nigerian Scam
• NII (National Information Infrastructure)
• NIR (National Internet Registry (NIR)
• N-ISDN (Narrowband ISDN)
• NIST
• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
• NIU (Network Interface Unit)
• NLOS (Non-Line-Of-Sight)
• nm (nanometer)
• NMS (Network Management System)
• NMT 450 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz)
• NMT 450 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz)
• NMT 900 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 900 MHz)
• NMT 900 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 900 MHz)
• NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone)
• n (nano-)
• NNI (Network-to-Network Interface)
• NN (Network Neutrality)
• NOC (Network Operations Center)