[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
54) intelligent network service means a service which is controlled by a computer system connected to a
telephone exchange;
55) consumer means an end-user who is a natural person and who mainly does not use electronic
communications services in his or her economic or professional activities;
56) [Repealed – RT I, 23.12.2015, 1 – entry into force 24.12.2015]
57) telephone exchange means a set of technical facilities which enables the switching of calls;
58) telephone service means a publicly available electronic communications service for making and receiving
national and international calls by using a number in the Estonian or international numbering plan;
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
59) telephone network means a public electronic communications network which is used for the provision of
telephone services and which enables the making of calls between the termination points in the public electronic
communications network;
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
60) terminal equipment means technical equipment or a part thereof which, connected at the access point,
enables to send, process or receive calls or transmit data; a router and a modem are also terminal equipment;
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022]
61) conditional access means a set of technical facilities or an authentication system, which enables the use
of radio or television services only after the performance of certain acts whereby the person subscribing for the
service undertakes to pay for the service;
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022]
62) identification code means a combination of digits which is used to organise the use of a public electronic
communications network or its parts and to distinguish a communications undertaking upon the provision of
communications services;
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
621) full access to the local loop means access of a communications undertaking to the local loop or local
sub-loop of another communications undertaking allowing the use of full capacity of the respective electronic
communications network infrastructure;
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022]
63) [Repealed – RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
64) virtual network service means a publicly available electronic communications service provided by
a communications undertaking which is based on a virtual connection or facility established in the public
electronic communications network of another communications undertaking;
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
65) [Repealed – RT I 2007, 63, 397 – entry into force 17.12.2007]
66) network service means an electronic communications service which consists in the creation and
management of an electronic communications network and grant of use thereof, in full or in part, to other
communications undertakings for provision of electronic communications services;
661) very high capacity communications network means a public electronic communications network which
consists wholly of optical fibre elements up to the distribution point at the location of providing the publicly
available electronic communications service, or a public electronic communications network having the quality
parameters equivalent to those of a network based on optical fibre elements;
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022]
662) small-area access point using radio frequencies (small cell) means low-power radio network access
equipment operating within a small range and used as part of a public electronic communications network;
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022]
67) access point means the point where the terminal equipment of the subscriber is connected to a line;
68) publicly available electronic communications service (hereinafter communications service) means a service
provided by a communications undertaking on the respective communications services market pursuant to
the general procedure to all persons, and the persons need not meet any conditions differentiating them from
other similar persons. A service is publicly available particularly if provision of the service is continuous and
consistent and it is provided essentially under uniform conditions;
69) publicly available electronic communications services contract (hereinafter communications services
contract) means a contract on the basis of which a communications undertaking provides communications
services to a subscriber;
70) termination point in the public electronic communications network (hereinafter termination point) means
a physically defined point in the public electronic communications network, where subscribers are provided or
can be provided with access to the public electronic communications network;
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
71) public electronic communications network (hereinafter communications network) means a network over
which publicly available electronic communications services are provided and which enables the transmission of
information between the termination points in the electronic communications network.
[RT I, 23.03.2011, 1 – entry into force 25.05.2011]
Chapter 2
Electronic Communications Act
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