to facilities and services necessary to
provide services over the local loop);
(b) physical infrastructure including, buildings,
cable engineering networks, ducts and
masts and poles;
(c) relevant software systems, including ope
rational support systems;
(d) number translation facilities or to systems
offering equivalent functionality;
(e) fixed and mobile networks, in particular for
roaming;
(f) conditional access systems for digital tele
vision services; and
(g) access to virtual network services;
“allocation” means the entry in the Table of
Frequency Allocations of a given frequency band
for the purpose of its use by one or more terrestrial
or space radio communication services or the radio
astronomy service under specified conditions and
applies to the frequency band concerned;
“alternative infrastructures” means any installation
or a set of installations that allow or contribute to
allow either the transmission or to the transmission
and the routing of the information and
communications signals;
“alternative infrastructure operators” means entities
owning infrastructures or rights that may, without
undertaking any public information and commu
nications network operator’s activities as defined
by present Act, support or contribute to the support
of information and communications networks;
“apparatus” means an equipment, instrument, or
any other object, for use in the provision or in the
reception of information and communications
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