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• “communications service” means any of the following services—

  1. a

     an electronic communications service;

  2. b

     the provision of directory information by means of an electronic communications network for the purpose of facilitating the use of an electronic communications service provided by means of that network;

  3. c

     the installation, maintenance, adjustment, repair, alteration, moving, removal or replacement of apparatus which is or is to be connected to an electronic communications network;

• “electronic communications apparatus” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code;

• “the electronic communications code” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of this Act;

• “electronic communications code network” means—

  1. a

     so much of an electronic communications network or F3infrastructure system provided by an electronic communications code operator as is not excluded from the application of the electronic communications code by a direction under section 106; and

  2. b

     an electronic communications network which the Secretary of State or a Northern Ireland department is providing or proposing to provide;

• “electronic communications code operator” means a person in whose case the electronic communications code is applied by a direction under section 106;

• “electronic communications network” and “electronic communications service” each has the same meaning as in this Act;

• “former PTO” means a person—

  1. a

     who is a provider of a public electronic communications network or a public electronic communications service which, immediately before the date on which the repeal by this Act of section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12) comes into force, was designated as a public telecommunication system under section 9 of that Act; and

  2. b

     who, immediately before that date, was authorised to provide that network or service by a licence to which section 8 of that Act applied;

• “operator”, in relation to an electronic communications code network, means—

  1. a

     the electronic communications code operator providing that network; or

  2. b

     the Secretary of State or a Northern Ireland department, to the extent that they are providing or proposing to provide that network;

• “provide” and cognate expressions, in relation to an electronic communications network, an electronic communications service or associated facilities, are to be construed in accordance with section 32(4) of this Act;

• “public electronic communications network” and “public electronic communications service” each has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of this Act.