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Community Broadcaster. A public broadcaster that provides programming of interest on the
local level or for particular communities such as a religious community.

Community

broadcasters can be funded by Government, non-profit organisations, viewers through
donations, and advertising.
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Convergence. The migration of traditional communications services such as telephony and
television to the Internet, as well as the development of new advanced communications
networks based on the Internet Protocol.

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CPE: Customer Premise Equipment. Any equipment in a subscriber's premises and
connected to a communication network.

This can include telephones, fax machines, and

broadband modems. They can be purchased directly by the subscriber or rented from the
service provider.
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ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

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ICT: Information and Communication Technology

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Information Society. A society in which the creation, distribution, and manipulation of
information has become the most significant economic and cultural activity.

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Interconnection Related Services. Network facilities or services that a regulator may require
an operator with significant market power to offer, including physical interconnection,
collocation, or access to unbundled network elements.

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Internet. The collection of interconnected networks that use the Internet Protocol.

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Internet Peering. Bilateral agreements negotiated between ISPs allowing them to exchange
traffic destined for each other's customers. Typically traffic is exchanged without the
originating ISP paying the terminating ISP, which in turn agrees to terminate the traffic on a
"best efforts" basis.

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IP: Internet Protocol. The protocol used for routing and carriage of messages across the
Internet.

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IPTV: Internet Protocol Television. The transmission of video signals over Internet
networks that are connected to analogue televisions (via a analogue converter) or to digital
televisions. IP Video is a form of IPTV that involves the transmission of video to personal
computers through broadband connections.

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ITU: International Telecommunication Union

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IXP: Internet Exchange Point. A facility in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can
locate equipment to exchange traffic, typically using peering connections. An IXP can allow
ISPs to save a significant amount of money by avoiding the need to directly connect to one

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