Esprit Telecom Obtains One of Spain's First Carrier Selection Code; Dialling '10788' code will give customers direct access to Esprit Telecom's pan-European network.LONDON, UK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 1999--Esprit Telecom Group plc (Nasdaq: ESPRY) (Easdaq: ESPR ESPR European Society of Paediatric Radiology ESPR Espressivo (music) ESPR Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Unit (University of Bradford) ESPR European Society of Paediatric Research ), one of Europe's leading independent telecommunications companies, today announced that it has been assigned one of Spain's first preselection codes -- the number 10788. The code, one of the first two assigned by the Spanish telecoms regulator, the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT CMT Certified Medical Transcriptionist. CMT abbr. Certified Medical Transcriptionist CMT California mastitis test. ), enables customers to select Esprit Telecom's pan-European digital fibre network for their long distance calls, bypassing Telefonica. The code assigned to Esprit Telecom will be necessary until Telefonica implements automatic carrier preselection, which will allow customers to use Esprit Telecom services directly. The awarding of the code follows the announcement made in December that Esprit Telecom had obtained B1 (regional) licenses to operate in Madrid, Barcelona and Gerona. Also in December, Esprit Telecom obtained the first C1 (national infrastructure) license in Spain, permitting the company to carry out the design, installation and management of a national telecommunications network A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. . About Esprit Telecom Spain Esprit Telecom was the first independent telecommunications operator to be established in Spain. It commenced operations in 1992 and has offices in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. Esprit Telecom expects to continue to expand the Esprit Network in Spain with the opening of new offices in major cities. Esprit Telecom already provides high quality, low cost, national and international long distance calls to businesses across Spain. About Esprit Telecom Group plc. Founded in 1992, Esprit Telecom is a facilities-based provider of international and national telecommunications services with network and sales office infrastructure in 30 cities in eight countries in Europe generating a run rate of over one billion minutes of traffic per annum Per annum Yearly. . Esprit Telecom Networks Limited, an independent operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. of Esprit Telecom, is currently building a 9,000 route kilometer SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing fiber optic network through six European countries. Esprit Telecom also has links to Washington and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of via a transatlantic circuit owned by other carriers. For further information, please contact: Glenn Manoff Esprit Telecom Group plc Tel: +44 (0) 118 951 4010 Fax: +44 (0) 118 951 4001 Glennm@esprittele.com Further information about Esprit Telecom is also available on the Internet at: http://www.esprittele.com |
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