“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 centres 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 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
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