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phone switching — transferring money between funds in the same mutual fund family by telephone request. There may be a charge associated with these transfers. phone switching is also possible among different fund families if the funds are held in street name by a… … Financial and business terms
Switching barriers — or switching costs are terms used in microeconomics, strategic management, and marketing to describe any impediment to a customer s changing of suppliers. In many markets, consumers are forced to incur costs when switching from one supplier to… … Wikipedia
switching cost — UK US noun [C] COMMERCE ► the cost of moving your bank account to another bank, changing to a different phone service, etc: »People put up with bad service because the switching costs are high … Financial and business terms
Phone fraud — Whether in the form of the consumer attempting to defraud the telephone company, the telephone company attempting to defraud the consumer, or a third party attempting to defraud either of them, fraud has been a part of the telephone system almost … Wikipedia
Switching Costs — The negative costs that a consumer incurs as a result of changing suppliers, brands or products. Although most prevalent switching costs are monetary in nature, there are also psychological, effort and time based switching costs. Sustainable… … Investment dictionary
Network switching subsystem — (NSS) (or GSM core network) is the component of a GSM system that carries out call switching and mobility management functions for mobile phones roaming on the network of base stations. It is owned and deployed by mobile phone operators and… … Wikipedia
Mobile Telephone Switching Office — The Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO) is the mobile equivalent to a PSTN Central Office. The MTSO contains the switching equipment or Mobile Switching Center (MSC) for routing mobile phone calls. It also contains the equipment for… … Wikipedia
Number Five Crossbar Switching System — The Number Five Crossbar Switching System or 5XB switch, designed by Bell Labs and made by Western Electric, was in use in Bell System telephone exchanges from 1948 to the 1980s. Its principal use was as a Class 5 telephone switch, though… … Wikipedia
Nokia phone series — Nokia s nomenclature can be traced back since 2005, when the Nseries line was introduced.[1] Because of the demands and peak of that line, Nokia again introduced another series of phones named Eseries,[2] made mostly for the enterprise market.[3] … Wikipedia
Packet switching — is a digital networking communications method that groups all transmitted data – regardless of content, type, or structure – into suitably sized blocks, called packets. Packet switching features delivery of variable bit rate data streams… … Wikipedia
