to facilities and services necessary to provide services over the local loop); (b) physical infrastructure including, buildings, cable engineering networks, ducts and masts and poles; (c) relevant software systems, including operational support systems; (d) number translation facilities or to systems offering equivalent functionality; (e) fixed and mobile networks, in particular for roaming; (f) conditional access systems for digital television services; and (g) access to virtual network services; “allocation” means the entry in the Table of Frequency Allocations of a given frequency band for the purpose of its use by one or more terrestrial or space radio communication services or the radio astronomy service under specified conditions and applies to the frequency band concerned; “alternative infrastructures” means any installation or a set of installations that allow or contribute to allow either the transmission or to the transmission and the routing of the information and communications signals; “alternative infrastructure operators” means entities owning infrastructures or rights that may, without undertaking any public information and communications network operator’s activities as defined by present Act, support or contribute to the support of information and communications networks; “apparatus” means an equipment, instrument, or any other object, for use in the provision or in the reception of information and communications 11