6) “National Roaming” means the ability of a subscriber to automatically make and receive voice calls, send and receive text and data, or access other services, even when traveling outside the geographical coverage area of his mobile service provider, by means of using the service of the other service provider’s network in Ethiopia. 7) “National Roaming Coverage Area” means the geographic area where Wholesale National Roaming Service shall be provided, or is provided. 8) “National Roaming Period” means a period of time where a New Licensee has the right to request Wholesale National Roaming Service to an operator with Significant Market Power in a relevant market for wholesale mobile access and call origination. 9) “New Licensee” means a Telecommuninactions Operator who has been issued a License by the Authority under Telecommunications Licensing Directive No. 1/2021, and not including the incumbent Operator . 10) “Reference Offer” means a standard form Wholesale National Roaming Service agreement, which describes the relevant services offered broken down into components, and the associated terms and conditions, including charges. 11) “Retail Service” means a Telecommunications Service that is provided to the end user or subscriber and not to another Telecommunications Operator. 12) “Roaming Provider” means a Telecommunications Operator that has received a request for Wholesale National Roaming Service from a New Licensee or providing such service. 13) “Roaming Seeker” means a Telecommunications Operator that has requested Wholesale National Roaming Service from another Telecommunications Operator. 14) “Service Provider” means a Telecommunications Operator that provides telecommunications services. 15) “Significant Market Power (“SMP”)” means the ability to materially affect the price or supply in the relevant market for communications service as a result of either control over essential facilities or use of a Person’s position in the market.. 16) “Subscriber” means any person who receives Telecommunications Services and pays the corresponding fees for a certain priod of time by virtue of an agreement that he or she enters into or accepts the terms set forth by a Telecommunications Operator. 17) “Vertically Integrated Operator” means a Telecommunications Operator that provides wholesale and Retail Services. 18) “Wholesale National Roaming Service” means a kind of Infrastructure Sharing service consisting of the supply of mobile access and call origination from a Telecommunications Operator’s cellular mobile network to its Downstream Operations, or to another Telecommunications Operator that has no mobile cellular coverage in the geographic area where the service is supplied. This service may also be referred as wholesale mobile access and call origination. 19) “Working Days” means business working days only and shall not include Saturday, Sunday and any day that has been declared to be a public holiday by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. 3. Objectives The main objectives of this Directive are to: 2

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