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　　FAQ - An acronym 1 for Frequently Asked Questions. FAQs are online documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject.

　　Federal Excise 2 Tax - A 3% tax mandated 3 by the federal government imposed on all telecommunications services including local, long distance and wireless 4 bills.

　　Federal Subscriber 5 Line Charge - This is a charge paid by consumers implemented 6 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It is intended to recover some of the costs associated with a customer's local telephone line to access the interstate long distance network. It helps keep interstate long distance rates low. You pay this charge whether or not you actually make long distance calls.

　　FCC - Federal Communications Commission. A United States government board made up of five presidential appointees that has the authority to regulate interstate telecommunications, as well as international communications that originate or terminate in the U.S.

　　File Transfer Protocol 7 (FTP) - A common method for sending and/or receiving files between Internet sites using a login system. Publicly accessed FTP sites are often called anonymous 8 FTPs.

　　Firewall - A combination of hardware and software used to separate a LAN into two separate parts for security reasons.

　　Frequency - A certain "size" of radio wave: The rate at which the electric and magnetic fields of a radio wave vibrate per second.

　　FTTP (Fiber to the Premises 9) - A fiber-optic network that connects directly from the carrier network to the user premises. Another fiber-optic network is FTTC (Fiber to the Curb 10) that connects from the carrier network to the curb, and from there to the premises by copper 11 wire or coaxial cable.

　　Facilities Based Private Switched Network Services

　　Facilities Based Private Switched Network Services is a private network for which LECs and IXCs dedicate physical switching and transmission facilities for the exclusive use of a particular customer.

　　Fast Packet

　　Fast Packet is a term referring to a number of broadband switching and networking paradigms 12. Implicit 13 is the assumption of an operating environment that includes reliable, digital, broadband, nearly error free transmission system.

　　FCC Federal Communications Commission

　　The FCC is a board of commissioners 14 empowered by the U.S. Congress to regulate all interstate and international communications, as well as use of the radio frequency media.

　　FDDI

　　fiber-distributed data interface 15

　　FDL

　　facility data link

　　FDM

　　frequency division multiplexing

　　FEP

　　front-end processor

　　FIPS

　　Federal Information Processing Standard

　　Foreign Exchange (FX)

　　FX is a service that provides a circuit(s) between a user station, a PBX, or a Centrex switch, and a central office other than the one that normally serves the caller.