- direct wholesale roaming access
means the making available of facilities or services, or both, by a mobile network operator to another undertaking, under defined conditions, for the purpose of that other undertaking providing regulated roaming services to roaming customers;
- domestic provider
means an undertaking that provides a roaming customer with domestic mobile communications services;
- domestic retail price
means a roaming provider’s domestic retail per-unit charge applicable to calls made and SMS messages sent, originating and terminating on different public communications networks within the same Member State, and to data consumed by a customer.
- home network
means a public communications network located within a Member State and used by the roaming provider for the provision of regulated retail roaming services to a roaming customer;
- regulated data roaming service
means a roaming service enabling the use of packet switched data communications by a roaming customer by means of his mobile device while it is connected to a visited network, excluding the transmission or receipt of regulated roaming calls or SMS messages, but including the transmission and receipt of MMS messages;
- regulated roaming call
means a mobile voice telephony call made by a roaming customer, originating on a visited network and terminating on a public communications network within the Union or received by a roaming customer, originating on a public communications network within the Union and terminating on a visited network;
- regulated roaming SMS message
means an SMS message sent by a roaming customer, originating on a visited network and terminating on a public communications network within the Union or received by a roaming customer, originating on a public communications network within the Union and terminating on a visited network;
- roaming customer
means a customer of a roaming provider of regulated roaming services, by means of a terrestrial public mobile communications network situated in the Union, whose retail contract or arrangement with that roaming provider permits Union-wide roaming;
- roaming provider
means an undertaking that provides a roaming customer with regulated retail roaming services;
- Union-wide roaming
means the use of a mobile device by a roaming customer to make or receive intra-Union calls, to send or receive intra-Union SMS messages, or to use packet switched data communications, while in a Member State other than that in which the network of the domestic provider is located, by means of arrangements between the home network operator and the visited network operator;
- visited network
means a terrestrial public mobile communications network situated in a Member State other than that of the roaming customer’s domestic provider that permits a roaming customer to make or receive calls, to send or receive SMS messages or to use packet switched data communications, by means of arrangements with the home network operator;
- wholesale roaming access
means direct wholesale roaming access or wholesale roaming resale access;
- wholesale roaming resale access
means the provision of roaming services on a wholesale basis by a mobile network operator different from the visited network operator to another undertaking for the purpose of that other undertaking providing regulated roaming services to roaming customers;