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Abstract

A telecommunication assembly includes various terminals which share a transmission channel via a base station for granting or not granting a terminal access to the transmission channel on the basis of different priorities being assigned to the terminals. The base station includes communication-and-control circuitry for providing a communication channel between the base station and each terminal irrespective of whether a high-priority terminal has been granted access to the transmission channel. This allows a user of a low-priority terminal to be informed that he or she cannot make use of the telephone line for reasons of priority. Once the telephone line is free, the base station may signal this to the low-priority terminal which has been denied access to the telephone line. An internal communication between two different low-priority terminals can be effected while a high-priority terminal uses the telephone line.

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