116
CAP. 411A
[Subsidiary]
Kenya Information and Communications
[Rev. 2011
service that operates through a mobile radio-communications system employing
a network architecture in a “cell” configuration in which low-powered radio
transmissions allow for the re-use of the same frequency simultaneously in
multiple cells and shall include both voice telephony services and non-voice
telephony services but shall unless otherwise expressly provided in a licence,
exclude video, paging and high speed data services;
“national long distance telephone call” means an effective or completed
telephone call exchanged with a telecommunications station outside the local
charging area in which the calling telecommunications station is situated;
“national long distance call completion rate” means the percentage of
national long distance telephone calls completed per total of national long
distance call attempts measured during the peak traffic hour which originate
and terminate within a licensee’s network (internal national long distance call
completion rate), or which terminate outside the licensee’s network (external
national long distance call completion rate);
“non-service specific interfaces” means a shared boundary between two
functional units that is not specific to any one telecommunications service;
“operational subscriber’s line” means an operational subscriber’s line
connecting a subscriber’s premises to the exchange;
“paging service” means a telecommunications services that provide
subscribers with radio messages, through portable radio equipment used
in a given zone, which may be accompanied by a verbal or codified visual
message;
“private telecommunications services” means telecommunications
services established by any person for the sole purpose of satisfying his own
communications needs within Kenya and may include telephony service or
value added services, radio communication and cable services;
“roaming services” means a type of telecommunications or radio
communications service that enables subscribers of one mobile cellular
communications system to utilize the facilities of another mobile radio
communications system with which the subscriber has no direct pre-existing
service or contractual relationship to place an outgoing call, to receive an
incoming call, or to continue an in-progress call;
“satellite mobile telecommunications service” means a service which
allows for voice or data communications through the use of mobile terminal
equipment and capable of maintaining a direct uplink to or direct downlink
from a satellite–based telecommunications network;
“satellite telecommunications service” means a telecommunications
service provided through connections from earth stations to authorised public
or private satellite-based telecommunications system;
“service agreement” means any agreement between an operator
and a subscriber or subscribers relating to the provision and use of a