The Telecommunications (Open Network Provision) (Voice Telephony) Regulations 1998

means any natural person who uses a publicly available telecommunications service for purposes which are outside his trade, business or profession;

means the holder of the office originally established by section 3(1)(a) of the Data Protection Act 1984 as the office of Data Protection Registrar;

means, in the case of directories, the name, address and telephone number of the subscriber and, in the case of a directory information service, may include the telephone number only of the subscriber or information that the telephone number of the subscriber may not be supplied;

means directory information provided over a telephone system;

means the public switched telecommunications network which supports the transfer between network termination points at fixed locations of speech and 3.1 kHz bandwidth audio information, to support inter alia: (a) voice telephony, (b) facsimile Group III communications, in accordance with ITU-T Recommendations in the “T-series”, (c) voice band data transmission via modems at a rate of at least 2,400 bit/s, in accordance with ITU-T Recommendations in the “V-series”;

means the telecommunication systems run by a person under a licence which has been granted under section 7 of the Act whether to a particular person, persons of a class or persons generally, and which form part of the fixed public telephone network and by means of which fixed publicly available telephone services are provided;

means the provision to end-users at fixed locations of a service for the originating and receiving of national and international calls, including voice telephony services and may include, in addition, access to emergency “112” services, the provision of operator assistance, directory services, provision of public pay-telephones, provision of service under special terms or provision of special facilities for customers with disabilities or with special social needs but does not include value added services provided over the public telephone system;

means a licence granted under section 7 of the Act;

means for the purpose of regulation 18(1)(b), the systemless service provider’s registered office and such other offices as the Director, having consulted the systemless service provider, may direct;

means the telecommunication systems run under licences whether granted under section 7 of the Act to a particular person or persons of a class by means of which publicly available mobile telephone services are provided at network termination points which are not at fixed locations;

means a facility whereby subscribers who so request can retain their number on the fixed public telephone network at a specific location independent of the organisation providing service;

means (i) a public operator which the Director has determined to be an operator having significant market power in accordance with regulation 6(1) below;

means to obtain, record or hold data or information or to carry out any operation or set of operations on the data or information, including;

means a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 7 of the Act authorising the running of a public telephone system and the provision of publicly available telephone services;

means a telephone available to the general public for the use of which the means of payment are one or more of the following:— (a) coins;

means telecommunication systems forming part of the fixed public telephone network or a mobile public telephone network;

means a telephony service whose provision consists, wholly or partly, in the establishment of radiocommunications to one mobile user, and makes use wholly or partly of a mobile public telephone network;

means either fixed publicly available telephone services or publicly available mobile telephone services or both;

means the Data Protection Act 1984 and from 24 October 1998 Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and Directive 97/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector;

means a person who is party to a contract with the provider of publicly available telecommunications services for the supply of such services;

means a person who provides publicly available telephone services but who does not run a telecommunication system within the meaning of section 4 of the Act by means of which such services are provided;

means the Telecommunications (Voice Telephony) Regulations 1997;

means the Telecommunications Act 1984;

means the Commission of the European Communities;

means the Director General of Telecommunications appointed under section 1 of the Act;

means the European Economic Area;

means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2 May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17 March 1993;

means the Telecommunications (Interconnection) Regulations 1997;

means Council Directive 90/387/EEC on the establishment of the internal market for telecommunications services through the implementation of open network provision as amended by European Parliament and Council Directive 97/51/EC for the purpose of adaptation to a competitive environment in telecommunica tions;

means Directive 98/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the application of open network provision to voice telephony and on universal service for telecommunications in a competitive environment;

means the Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 1992;

means Directive 95/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the application of open network provision (ONP) to voice telephony;

means a defined minimum set of services of specified quality which is available to all users independent of their geographical location and, in the light of specific national conditions, at an affordable price;

means a person using or requesting publicly available telecommunications services;

means a licence granted under section 7 of the Act to a particular person or to persons of a class or to persons generally and which authorises the running of a public telephone system and the provision of publicly available telephone services;

means a service available to the public for the commercial provision of direct transport of real-time speech via the public switched network or networks such that any user can use equipment connected to a network termination point at a fixed location to communicate with another user of equipment connected to another termination point.