Paragraph 6

In the licence entitled “LICENCE GRANTED TO NATIONAL TRANSCOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED TO RUN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1984” granted on 30th December 1992, there shall be substituted for paragraph 3(e) of the Service Authorisation in Schedule 3 to such licence the following sub-paragraph—

“any service consisting in the transmission of Messages to or the reception of Messages from earth orbiting apparatus where such Messages consist in live speech and have been or are to be conveyed both:

(i)

by means of a Public Switched Network in the United Kingdom; and

(ii)

by means of the equivalent of a Public Switched Network outside the United Kingdom;

provided that, in relation to such services provided between a network termination point in the United Kingdom and a network termination point in another member State of the European Community or an EEA State, this sub-paragraph shall have effect as if it provided as follows:

“any service consisting in public voice telephony involving the transmission of Messages to or the reception of Messages from earth orbiting apparatus where such messages have been or are to be conveyed both:

(i)

by means of a Public Switched Network in the United Kingdom; and

(ii)

by means of the equivalent of a Public Switched Network in another member State of the European Community or EEA State,”and in this sub-paragraph—

(aa)

“public voice telephony” means the commercial provision for the public of the direct transport and switching of speech in real-time between public switched network (or the equivalent in such other State) termination points, enabling any user to use equipment connected to such a network termination point in order to communicate with any other network termination point; and

(bb)

“EEA State” means a State, not being a member State of the European Community, which is a Contracting Party to the European Economic Area Agreement.”.