Rev. 2011]
Kenya Information and Communications
CAP. 411A
telecommunications service;
“service quality requirements” means conditions of licence established by
the Commission pursuant to section 25 of the Act for the purpose of improving
the quality and delivery of telecommunications services in Kenya;
“store and forward messaging service” means a service whereby messages
can be exchanged between subscribers using storage and retransmission
devices;
“subscriber” means any person provided with a telecommunications
service by a licensee, and who is responsible for payment of all charges and
rentals;
“subscriber line” means a telecommunications link connecting the local
telecommunications center to the subscriber’s premises or telephone instrument
or system;
“tariffs” means the charges by a telecommunications service operator
or its subscribers;
“telex service” means a telecommunications service that provides
for the interactive telecommunication of texts between subscribers through
teleprinting devices interconnected by a telex network via transmission of
codified information;
“third party private network service” means a service over a userdedicated network supplied by a licensee providing such services, whether
directly or indirectly, to the user of such services;
“Tribunal” means the Appeals Tribunal established under section 102
of the Act;
“trunk capacity resale service” means a type of telecommunications
service which, using a trunk capacity resale system, provides the necessary
capacity to carry and route telecommunications signals constituting the main
interconnection between telecommunications systems and networks and which
allows the provision of final services, distribution services and value added
services;
“value added services” means such services as may be available over
a telecommunications system in addition to voice telephony service, and
specifically those services listed as “value added services” in these Regulations,
including the following—
(a) “videotext” means a service involving a two-way interactive
computer-based information system in which a subscriber is linked
to a database by telephone line or cable;
(b) “teletex” means a service whereby a subscriber can exchange office
correspondence in the form of documents containing teletex coded
information on an automatic memory-to-memory basis;
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