Translation of "Variable bit rate service " (English → French) :

(5a) Unbundled access to the local loop allows new entrants to compete with notified operators in offering high bit-rate data transmission services for continuous Internet access and for multimedia applications based on digital subscriber line (DSL) technology as well as voice telephony services.

So there are variables, as there are variables in the retail station if it's 40 below zero—your costs of maintaining, heating, and lighting your service station vary to that rate too.

Quality of Service // Bit Error Rate < 10-5 for communication link: beacon to SAR ground station

Adjustments are to be expected in variables such as exchange or interest rates, level and composition of savings, consumption and investment, as well as in the international flows of capital and goods and services between areas which are differentially exposed to ageing.

Table 1 Current provisions concerning use of cable TV networks for the provision of telecommunications services can be summarised as follows: Use of cable TV networks for liberalised services Belgium No Denmark No France Non-voice services only Germany No Greece ---------* Ireland No legal provision Italy ---------* Luxembourg No legal provision Netherlands Limited use Portugal No Spain No UK Yes Source: "L'impact de l'authorisation de la fourniture de services de télécommunications liberalisés par les câblo-opérateurs", IDATE, 1994, and additional analysis * No cable TV networks available ...[+++] Table 2 Minimum Capacity requirements (approximate) for services Speech: 64 kilo-bits/second ISDN: 140 kilo-bits/second Standard quality moving images: 2 mega-bits/second Enhanced quality moving images: 10 mega-bits/second Table 3 Technical limits on network infrastructure to the home i. Twisted Copper pairs: used by TOs to connect end users to the local switch: up to 257 kilo-bits/second: reliable service to all customers on local network the greater the capacity requirement above 257 mega-bits the greater the trade-offs of increased error rates, lack of reliability and limits on the distance which the end user can be from a central switch.

For example, in Quebec the mortality rate is 4.6% for every 1,000 births while in Canada it is 5.6% or 5.7%. Earlier, I was a bit insulted to hear the Liberal member say that in Canada, and in Quebec in particular, they are doing a poor job of managing their budgets, that they are not spending them on the right services and that our health care system is not effective enough.