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ADOPTS:
CHAPTER OE. DEFIITIOS
Article One
In this law :
1° “Law” refers to the law governing telecommunications
2° “Catastrophic conditions” refers to any unforeseen catastrophic network breakdown
howsoever caused. This includes failure of switching and transmission equipment, destruction
of part of the network by reason of industrial action by employees, riot, civil or international
war, insurrection, vandalism, weather conditions judged to be extreme, earthquake, flood,
lightning or fire, or theft.
3° “Consumer equipment” refers to terminal equipment which can be installed and rendered
operational by a user without special instruction and includes telephone handsets, facsimile
machines and telephone answering machines and any other similar equipment which may be
so designated by the Regulatory Board.
4° “Court” refers to mean the competent judicial tribunal designated to hear
telecommunications cases.
5° “Dominant organizations” refers to an individual or organization providing public
networks and/or public telephone services who has been designated as a dominant
organization by this law.
6° “Individual licence” refers to a licence granted by an individual decision of the competent
Minister to an individual granting authority for the provision of a public network and/or
public telecommunications service which may have specific rights or obligations attached to it
supplementing the terms of a standard licence as set out in Article 6 of this law.
7° “Infrastructure” refers to pipes, ducts, tunnels, aerials, masts and pylons as well as all
other structures fixed to the ground or attached to buildings.
8° “Interception of communications” refers to listening, tapping, recording, storing, decrypting, intercepting, interfering with, or carrying out any other type of surveillance over
voice and data communications without the knowledge of the user, unless that user has given
explicit permission.
9° “Interconnection” refers to reciprocal services (but not necessarily the same services)
offered by two operators providing a public telephone service in order to allow all users to
communicate freely amongst themselves, regardless of the telecommunications networks to
which they are connected or the telecommunications services they use.
10° “Leased lines” refers to the telecommunications facilities which provide for transparent
transmission capacity between network termination points and which do not include on
demand switching (switching functions which the user can control as part of the leased line
provision). They may include systems which allow flexible use of the leased line bandwidth
including certain routing and management capabilities.