Rev. 2011]
Kenya Information and Communications
CAP. 411A
115
[Subsidiary]
the person from whom it is obtained; and
(b) the disclosure of which is likely to impair the Commission’s ability
to obtain similar necessary information in the future or to cause
substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from
whom the information is obtained.
“global navigation system” means an arrangement of technical apparatus
by means of which an end user can determine location parameters of latitude,
longitude and altitude at any instant of time anywhere on the earth surface;
“international call completion rate” means the minimum percentage of
international telephone calls originating within a licensee’s network completed
per total of international call attempts measured during the peak traffic hour;
“international telephone call” means an effective or completed telephone
call exchanged with a telecommunications station outside the country in which
the calling telecommunications station is situated;
“ITU” means the International Telecommunications Union;
“leased line” means a telecommunications line that is made available to
a subscriber for his exclusive use;
“licensee” means the holder of a licence issued by the Commission under
the Act or these Regulations;
“line” means a transmission medium between terminal locations and
includes associated repeaters;
“local service provider” means a telecommunications licensee licensed to
provide local basic telephone service excluding international and long distance
services but include value added services in accordance with the relevant licence
issued by the Commission;
“local call completion rate” means the minimum percentage of local
telephone calls completed per total of local call attempts measured during the
peak traffic hour which originate and terminate from the licensee’s network;
“local telephone call” means an effective or completed telephone call
exchanged with a telecommunications station within the local charging area in
which the calling telecommunications station is situated;
“mobile radio-communication system” means a telecommunications
system consisting of mobile service switching centers each of which typically
serves a number of “cells” which establish calls to and from mobile subscribers
in their respective call service areas, thereby allowing calls to be transferred from
one cell to another cell without interruption and established or to be established
by an operator under a licence to provide mobile radio communications
Services;
“mobile radio-communication service” means a telecommunications