Wholesale Calls Product Handbook v4.1
British Telecommunications plc Page 44 of 47
March 2009
Communication Providers Identity (CPid).
Equivalence Management
Platform (EMP)
The Openreach strategic platform providing a
common interface for placing orders and fault
reports for all Openreach products.
End User (EU)
This term distinguishes between CPs (BT's
customer) and the ultimate end users. End
Users are the people who make use of the
Wholesale Calls service provided by BT to
CPs.
FastPeter
The BT system used for placing and
removing barring orders.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
A method for transferring publicly accessible
documents between machines or over the
internet.
Geneva Integrated Universal
Solution (GenIUS)
The BT system used for Billing and Rating
Indirect Access
A service where a CP can set up a prefix to
be automatically added to a number to route
all calls via that CP.
Integrated Services Digital
Network (ISDN)
This is a digital network that allows a host of
services to be carried together on the same
circuits. It can be considered to be an
extension of the public switched telephone
network, the key similarity being that it
permits any two compatible pieces of
connected equipment to talk to each other.
This means that ISDN can carry any form of
data, such as voice, video and computer
files.
INT
International calls barring i.e. all calls
beginning ‘00’.
LDLI
Last Diverting Line Identity
Line Provider
The provider of the line to the End User over
which the services run
MOB
Mobile calls barring only (does NOT include
other categories of call beginning ‘07’).
Order Types
This refers to an activity related to the End
User calls package requested by the CP and
can involve a Provide, Cease, Amend or
Cancel Order.
Onebill Replacement System
(ORS)
This is a billing consolidation system, which
takes billed feeds from accounts on other
billing systems, and consolidates these into a
single bill.
Outgoing Call Barring (OCB)
The generic term used to restrict access to a
telephony network for either all or only
chargeable calls.
PEW
Planned Engineering Works
Portal (Wholesale Calls)
The BT electronic gateway which enables
communications providers to place orders for the
Calls Service for Wholesale Calls Lines
Independent
PRS
Premium Rate Service
