Enhanced service
Encyclopedia
Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier
transmission
facilities used in interstate communications
, that employs computer
processing applications that act on the format, content, code
, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information
; provides the subscriber with additional, different, or restructured information; or involves subscriber interaction with stored information.
Common carrier
A common carrier in common-law countries is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and that is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport...
transmission
Transmission (telecommunications)
Transmission, in telecommunications, is the process of sending, propagating and receiving an analogue or digital information signal over a physical point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission medium, either wired, optical fiber or wireless...
facilities used in interstate communications
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
, that employs computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
processing applications that act on the format, content, code
Code
A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation , not necessarily of the same type....
, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
; provides the subscriber with additional, different, or restructured information; or involves subscriber interaction with stored information.