‘communications’ means the conveyance from one device to another of any message by means of
any wire, radio, optical, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic or similar system;
‘communications facility' means any infrastructure, building, including a switching equipment
location, mast site, tower, pole, trunk line, access line, duct or other underground facility, or other
passive equipment that is used or is capable of being used for communications or for any
operation directly connected with communications, but excluding customer equipment;
‘communications market’ means a market for communications services or access;
‘communications network’ means a system that uses electricity or electromagnetic energy for
providing communications services between network termination points;
‘communications service’ means a service for the transmission of communications by means of a
communications network;
‘consumer’ means a customer who contracts for a communications service that is offered on
standard conditions that are of general application and not negotiated individually;
‘customer’ means a person who contracts for a communications service;
‘customer equipment’ means equipment (including cabling) that is on the customer side of the
network termination point and intended to be connected to a communications network;
‘equipment includes any appliance, apparatus, device or accessory used or intended to be used for
communications purposes;
‘exempt network’ means a communications network—
(a)
not used fo provide any communications service for which a charge is
imposed;
(b)
wholly within one property (including a ship or aircraft) or a number of
properties which together comprise a campus;
(c)
(d)
used only for a person’s private or internal requirements (including the
requirements of an organisation’s staff, a related entity or a holding
company, subsidiary company or associated company); or
covered by an exemption under subsection (1)(a);
‘exempt service’ means a communications service—
(a)
provided only over an exempt network; or
(6) _ provided in circumstances covered by an exemption under subsection
()e@);
‘holding company’ has the meaning given in the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 10A);
‘Inspector’ means a person appointed or designated by the Commission under section;
‘interconnection’ means the physical and logical linking of communications networks of different
licensees in order to allow the customers of one licensee to communicate with customers of the
same or another licensee, or to access the communications services of another licensee;