Official Gazette-Issue 41- Addendum - 23/7/2002
"Telecommunications Services": The transmission and/or routing of Information
by wires, radio signals, optical means, electromagnetic systems or any other
method, as well as providing the necessary infrastructure for that purpose.
"Public Telecommunications Network": Fully interconnected and integrated
telecommunications system consisting of various transmissions and switching
means used to provide Basic Telephony Service and other Public
Telecommunications Services.
"Public
Telecommunications
Services":
Generally
available
Telecommunications Services provided to the public or to a group of persons,
including Basic Telephony Services.
"Basic Telephony Services": Providing a Domestic Telecommunications Service
for the transmission of a two-way or multi-way real-time fixed voice telephone
service through a Public Telecommunications Network.
"Private Telecommunications Services": Telecommunications Services
provided to specific groups of Users either within the premises of a single building
or contiguous facilities, or within the premises of non-contiguous buildings by
way of connection via a private line service for transmission and reception by one
Person or by his employees or otherwise by different Persons belonging to one
group or their employees.
"Domestic Telecommunications Services": Telecommunications Services
provided within the Lebanese territory.
"International Telecommunications Services": Telecommunications Services
provided between Lebanon and abroad.
"Private Line Service": A Telecommunications Service providing a Subscriber
with the exclusive usage of infrastructure for a limited period of time, as well as
for a specific capacity, provided that the Subscriber pays a fee based on the total
available capacity not on the capacity actually used.
Private Line Services may be provided either as a Private or a Public
Telecommunications Service.
"Value Added Services": Services characterized by:
a) Adaptation in the form, content, code, protocol or any other representation of
the data transmitted by a Subscriber or User through the telecommunications
Network without changing their content.
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