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3. Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations—

“Act” means the Telecommunications Act;

“access deficit” means the difference between the costs incurred by the incumbent fixed public network operator for providing domestic telecommunications services whose prices are regulated, and the maximum revenue that the operator can secure for providing those services under price regulation;

“calling line identity” means the information generated by a telecommunications network that identifies the calling number;

“call termination” means the completion of a call that is originated on one public network and terminated on another;

“cost-oriented” means the charges equal to the long-run incremental cost of an efficient provider plus an appropriate portion of shared and common costs;

“dominant fixed public network operator” means a public network operator who is designated by the Commission as dominant for the purposes of providing interconnection services under regulation 10;

“dominant interconnection provider” means a public network operator who is designated by the Commission as dominant for the purposes of providing interconnection services under regulation 10;

“interconnection provider” means a public network operator who receives a request to provide interconnection under the Act or these Regulations;

“interconnection services” means services provided by public network operators to other public network operators linking the public telecommunications networks or telecommunications services of both parties to—

(a) allow the users of the public telecommunications services of either party to communicate with the users of the telecommunications services of the other; and

(b) access the services provided by the other operator or service provider;

“joining service” means a service consisting of a transmission facility connecting the points of interconnection of two public network operators, one of which may or may not be the provider of the joining service;

“number portability” means the ability of a customer to retain the same telephone number on changing telecommunications providers;

“phased manner” means to reduce or increase gradually or in stages;

“point of interconnection” means the locations where the exchange of telecommunications between the telecommunications network of an interconnection provider and the telecommunications network of a public network provider takes place;

“public network operator” means a person licensed under the Act to operate a public telecommunications network;

“reference interconnection offer” means a document setting out the terms on which the dominant interconnection provider proposes to offer interconnection to a public network operator requesting interconnection;

“Register” means the register maintained under regulations 24, 25, 26 and 28;

“transit service” means a network service for carrying traffic between two public network operators that are unaffiliated with the provider of the transit service.