Schedule 2 EXCLUDED PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES

In this Schedule—

• “basic data transmission services” means telecommunications services consisting of the conveyance of messages other than two-way live speech telephone calls, including only such switching, processing, data storage or protocol conversion as is necessary for the conveyance of those messages in real time;

• “basic voice telephony services” means telecommunications services consisting of the conveyance of messages in the form of two-way live speech telephone calls, including only such switching, processing, data storage or protocol conversion as is necessary for the conveyance of those messages in real time;

• “maritime services” means two-way telecommunications services including voice telephony and data transmission services consisting of the transmission and reception of messages conveyed between seagoing vessels and hovercraft;

• “private leased circuit” means a communication facility which is—

  1. (a)

     provided by one or more public telecommunications networks,

  2. (b)

     for the conveyance of messages between points, all of which are points of connection between public telecommunications networks and other telecommunications networks,

  3. (c)

     made available to a particular person or particular persons,

  4. (d)

     such that all of the messages transmitted at any of the points referred to in subparagraph (b) above are received at every other such point, and

  5. (e)

     such that the points mentioned in subparagraph (a) above are fixed by the way in which the facility is installed and cannot otherwise be selected by persons or telecommunications apparatus sending messages by means of the facility;

• “public telecommunications networks” and “public telecommunications services” have the meanings ascribed to them by regulation 2(1); and

• “public telecommunications operator” has the meaning given by section 9(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1984.