“electromagnetic system” means a system by which messages or sound or light or visual images may be transmitted by(a) wire activated by electricity; (b) radio waves or any other electromagnetic energy; (c) optical energy; or (d) a combination of any two or more of those systems; “encrypted” means treated electronically or otherwise so as to prevent intelligible reception in the absence of the means of decryption; "end-user" means a user not providing public communications networks or publicly available information and communications services; “force majeure” includes(a) an act of God, riot or civil commotion; (b) a strike, lock-out disturbance; or other industrial (c) a war, blockade or an insurrection; (d) an earthquake, hurricane, a flood, a fire or an explosion; (e) an outbreak of pestilence or epidemic; (f) Government rationing of electricity or other wartime or emergency control imposed by Government; and (g) an embargo or trade restriction; “frequency” means the number of complete cycles per second of a wave of electromagnetic energy; “Fund” means the Universal Service Fund that may 15