blocking network | blocking switching network

international trunk-to-trunk blocking

digit-recognition network

nonblocking switching network

Toll Network Service - Blockage and Failure

Local Network Service - Blockage and Failures

Furthermore, the Commission notes that the grant of an exemption from the price freeze leads to increased turnover and income for the undertakings benefitting from it.

In particular, the assessment of solutions has been broken down by reference to a) barriers due to national authorisation regimes linked with inconsistency in regulatory approaches implemented by NRAs; b) lack of co-ordination in spectrum assignments and conditions as well as regulatory uncertainty as to the availability of frequencies; c) lack of wholesale products which allow the provision of services using the network of another operator with consistent service interoperability levels, in the framework of market remedies or reciprocal negotiations; d) fragmentation of consumer protection rules leading to uneven levels of consumer protection and varying commercial conditions, including high costs of roaming and international calls a ...[+++]s well as blocking or throttling of services.

facilities ensuring that traffic steering, network barring, or other mechanisms applied in the home network do not prevent the users from selecting the visited network for local data roaming services of their choice;

‘network barring’ means a control function used by the home network operator aimed at avoiding the selection of certain visited networks for its roaming customers;