22. ‘Public pay telephone’ shall mean a telephone available to the public, for the use of which
the means of payment may include coins and/or credit/debit cards and/or pre-payment cards,
including cards for use with dialling codes.
23. ‘Cable ducts’ shall mean a horizontal civil engineering structure consisting of ducts, pipes
and the like that facilitates the setting-up and maintenance of telecommunications conduits.
24. ‘Catastrophic network failure’ shall mean a severe breakdown in an electronic
communications network which cannot be eliminated in one day.
25. ‘Call’ shall mean a connection established by means of a publicly available electronic
communications service allowing two-way voice communication.
26. ‘Emergency call’ shall mean a call to an emergency number operated by bodies appointed
to deal with such calls in the Republic of Slovenia, including the police and ambulance,
rescue and relief services.
27. ‘Communication’ shall mean any information exchanged or conveyed between a finite
number of parties by means of a publicly available electronic communications service. This
shall not include any information conveyed as part of a broadcasting service to the public
over an electronic communications network, except to the extent that the information can be
related to an identifiable subscriber or user receiving the information.
28. ‘Communications facility’ shall mean a building or civil engineering structure that is part
of the electronic communications network and associated infrastructure, including devices; it
may also be a device, equipment or infrastructure that is not a facility under construction
regulations.
29. ‘End-user’ shall mean a user not operating public electronic communications networks or
providing publicly available electronic communications services.
30. ‘Local loop’ shall mean the physical circuit connecting a network termination point to the
main distribution frame or equivalent facility in the fixed public electronic communications
network.
31. ‘Personal data breach’ shall mean a breach of security leading to the accidental or
unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of or access to personal data
transmitted, retained or otherwise processed in connection with the provision of a publicly
available electronic communications service in the European Union (hereinafter referred to as
'the EU').
32. ‘Interconnection’ shall mean the physical and logical linking of public communications
networks used by the same or a different operator in order to allow users of one operator to
communicate with users of the same or another operator, or to access services provided by
another operator. Services may be provided by the parties involved or by other parties who
have access to the network. Interconnection is a specific type of access implemented between
public network operators.
33. ‘Transnational markets’ shall mean the markets referred to in Article 110 of this Act
covering the EU or a substantial part thereof in more than one Member State.
34. ‘Subscriber’ shall mean any natural person or legal entity who or which is party to a
contract with a provider of publicly available electronic communications services for the
supply of such services.
35. ‘Non-geographic number’ shall mean a number from the numbering plan of the Republic
of Slovenia referred to in Article 63 of this Act that is not a geographic number. It shall
include, inter alia, mobile, freephone and premium-rate numbers.
36. ‘Unsuccessful call attempt’ shall mean a communication in which a telephone call has
been successfully connected but not answered, or there has been a network management
intervention.
37. ‘Net neutrality’ shall mean the principle by which all internet traffic on a public
communications network is treated equally irrespective of content, application, service,