iry for dynamic spectrum ac- Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs), 200 cess, 315 Etisalat, 393 outage reports required by, 205 EMTS Limited, 411 proposed incentive auctions of spectrum, 314 Etisalat DB Private, Ltd., 400 rejection of proposed AT&T merger with T- Europe, 412-421 Mobile USA, 137 China Telecom in, 396 report on broadband services' speeds, 219 decline of revenues for cellular services, 389 spectrum auctions, 311, 312 digital signal levels, 258 spectrum cap for mobile carriers, 318 European Union (EU), 413 FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet), 60 exapnsion of mobile service offerings in East- costs and operational issues, 61 ern Euripe, Asia, and Africa, 415 FDD (Frequency-Division Duplex), 336 partial list of carriers offering LTE, 413 FD-LTE (Frequency-Division Multiplexing LTE), voicemail use in, 393 European Telecommunications Standards Institute feature servers. See application servers (ETSI), 202 Federal Communications Act of 1934, 161 European Union (EU), 413 femtocells, 315, 350 European Union, Internet privacy rules, 280 in carrier networks, 352 evolved HSPA. See HSPA+ deploying for improved converage, 352 evolved NodeB (eNodeB), 341 fiber cabling, 38 extended superframe (ESF) CSU/DSUs, 250 in commercial organizations, 42 extensions, 17 connections to copper cabling, 43 extranets, 298, 300 deploying to homes and businesses, lowering cost using PONs, 196 economics of, to large apartment buildings and enterprises, 195 Facebook, 265, 279, 287 Gigabit Ethernet over, 243 competition for advertising revenue, 279 in mobile backhaul networks, 346 social games on, 287 single-mode versus multi-mode, 43 Farm Ville, 287 six-pair fiber undersea cable, 6 FCC (Federal Communications Commission), T1 over, 248 110, 161 T3 over, 248 approval of funding for universal broadband, technological advances in undersea cabling, cellular analog service, 308 uses in enterprise LANs, 39 formation of NECA to administer access fees, fiber facilities of incumbent, competitors' access to, 126 grants to rural carriers thro