45Any other interpretation would considerably reduce the scope of the NRF, undermine the effectiveness of its provisions and therefore compromise the achievement of the objectives pursued by that framework. Since the purpose of the NRF, as is apparent from recital 5 in the preamble to Directive 2009/140, is to establish a genuine internal market for electronic communications, in which those communications must, eventually, be governed solely by competition law, the exclusion of the activities of an undertaking such as UPC from its scope, on the pretext that it does not restrict itself to conveying signals, would deprive the NRF of all meaning.
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