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'''Metallic path facility''' ('''MPF''') are the [[unshielded twisted pair]] of copper wires that run from a [[main distribution frame]] (MDF) at a [[local telephone exchange]] to the customer. In this variant, both [[broadband]] and voice (''baseband'') services, together potentially with a [[video on demand]] service, are provided to the end user by a single communications provider. MPF services are typically delivered through use of an [[MSAN]].

'''Shared metallic path facility''' ('''SMPF''') is based on the same technology as MPF, but denotes a variant whereby an [[Internet Service Provider|Internet Service Provider (ISP)]] provides a [[broadband]] service to the end user but hands the voice (''baseband'') service back to the [[Postal, telegraph and telephone service|PTT]]/[[ILEC]]. Hence the provision of services over the end users copper wires might be shared between two providers. With SMPF, the non-incumbent service provider could purchase wholesale the voice service provision from the PTT/ILEC to allow the former to control the customer relationship for both broadband and voice services. In the UK at least, this service is called [[Wholesale Line Rental|Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)]]. SMPF services are typically delivered through use of a [[DSLAM]].

Both terms are commonly used, for example by [[Ofcom]] and [[Openreach]] in the [[UK]], to denote a [[local-loop unbundling]] service, designed to ensure a former monopoly player (deemed to have ''Significant Market Power'', or SMP) allows a [[level playing field]] or ''Equivalence of Inputs''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ofcom glossary: EOI|url=http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/policy/bt-undertakings/glossary|website=[[Ofcom]]|publisher=[[HM Government]]|access-date=12 November 2014}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Local loop]]
* [[Local-loop unbundling]]
* [[Main distribution frame]]
* [[Telephone exchange]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{cite web
| title = Openreach Local Loop Unbundling
| publisher = [[BT Group|BT]] Interconnect
| url = http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/llu/llu.do
| access-date = 2014-05-14 }}

[[Category:Broadband]]
[[Category:Networking hardware]]
[[Category:Local loop]]

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