ACCESS CONTROL MEANS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TELEVISION RECEIVER

摘要

In a communication system a communication device (2) is present for receiving a wideband broadcast signal from a head-end. For providing a return channel to enable interactive TV services, a GSM transceiver (34) is included in the communication device.In order to be able to provide also telephone services access control means (30) are present in the communication device (2) in order to control the access to the GSM transceiver without access conflicts causing an incorrect working system. The access control means switch between the return signals transmitted by a processor (12) and the telephone signals transmitted by a telephone terminal (22).In an embodiment of the invention, the communication device (2) is integrated in a TV set (3).