Registration Document BOUYGUES

High-density
area
HSPA
Interactivity
Internet service
provider (ISP)
Inventory (TV
programmes)
Area with high population density in a significant part of which it is economically worthwhile for
several operators to roll out their own optical fibre networks as close as possible to the home.
By Arcep’s definition, 148 municipalities are situated in high-density areas for the purposes of
rolling out optical fibre.
See 3G+.
TV programme or website that seeks audience participation (voting, taking part in a game, etc.).
Company that provides internet access via ADSL, cable or optical fibre. Equipment provided
by the operator (modem, router, etc.) is essential.
Television programmes that can be kept and used again in the long term (dramas, documentaries,
cartoons, arts, etc.), unlike light entertainment programmes (game shows, sporting events, etc.).
Net connections
Optical fibre
Parental control
Plan
In the telecommunications industry, the number of new customers minus the number of customers
who have terminated their subscription.
Silicon fibre used in telecommunications networks that may be installed by the operator to the
curb (FTTC, fibre to the curb), to the building (FTTB, fibre to the building) or to the home (FTTH,
fibre to the home). It enables the very fast transmission of enhanced multimedia services such
as internet, telephony, video on demand, high definition pictures, etc.
Tool that enables parents to block access to certain TV programmes and websites whose content
is deemed inappropriate for children.
Mobile phone subscription (also called "postpaid"), comprising a monthly communications credit
ranging, at Bouygues Telecom for example, from 40 minutes to unlimited calls. When service
plans are capped, as with Universal Mobile, there is no possibility of overrun.
IP
Internet Protocol. Communication protocol for data exchange on networks (internet, ADSL,
WiFi, 3G, etc.).
Prepaid
Mobile phone service without a subscription, based on buying top-ups (top-ups for Bouygues
Telecom cards range from €5 to €60).
IPTV
Lower density
area
LTE See 4G.
Machine-tomachine
(M2M)
Market share
(advertising)
Mediamat’
Thematik
Internet Protocol Television. Protocol for distributing television via an IP network like the internet.
An area that is not a high-density area as defined by Arcep for the roll-out of optical fibre. They
are areas of average population density and rural areas. See High-density area.
Exchange of information without human intervention between devices equipped with a SIM card
and a computer server. Examples include updates of municipal display panels, remote meter
reading, bike hire schemes like Velib’ in Paris. See also SIM card.
Advertising spend attracted by a channel or a medium in a given media market (television, radio,
etc.), expressed as a percentage. TF1’s advertising market share in 2011 was 37.2% of the total
television market (source: TNS Media Intelligence).
Médiamétrie’s benchmark theme channel audience survey which replaced MediaCabSat in March
2010 and covers the cable, satellite and ADSL television market in France.
Prime time
Programming
costs
Public initiative
networks
Quadruple play
(4P)
Roaming
(international)
Part of the schedule when the audience is largest. In France, television prime time is in the
evening, generally from 8.45pm. "Access prime time" is between 6.00 and 8.00pm.
Cost of producing and acquiring the rights to programmes shown, including shorts (sponsored),
the overheads of programme units and final rights payments.
Physical (optical fibre) networks built by local authorities (regions, départements, metropolitan
areas). As a rule public authorities invest, often with a private partner, to build a network covering
the whole zone (or sometimes only zones not covered by ADSL).
A high speed subscription package comprising four services (fixed and mobile phone, internet
and television). Bouygues Telecom was the first French operator to launch a 4P service with
ideo, combining a Bbox router with a mobile phone service plan.
Possibility for mobile phone or internet customers (roaming subscribers) travelling in a zone
other than the one where they are subscribers to automatically use a different operator’s network.
Customers are billed by their home operator. Roaming agreements are concluded between
operators in different countries.
MPT
MVNO
Mobile personal television. A new digital way of receiving television on a mobile phone or reception
device. Channels will be broadcast in point-to-multipoint mode via the terrestrial network in
addition to the current point-to-point mode (Edge, 3G).
For further information: www.forum-tv-mobile.com
Mobile Virtual Network Operator. A company that has neither telecommunications infrastructure
nor frequencies of its own and buys communication time from traditional operators for resale to
its customers. Bouygues Telecom hosts several MVNOs on its network.
Sales from
network
SCN
Revenue generated from Bouygues Telecom customers minus handset sales.
Subscriber connection node. Owned by the legacy operator, they are telephone multiplexers
that host ISP equipment (see also DSLAM). They are distributed nationwide according to
population density.
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