inlets, building engineering systems, distribution cabinets and other measures intended for
electronic communications activities.
121. Physical infrastructure suitable for installing and/or sharing the electronic
communications infrastructure (hereinafter: ‘suitable purpose physical infrastructure‘)
shall mean gas, electricity, including public lighting, heating, water, including wastewater
management infrastructure and drainage systems, production, distribution, transmission,
supply or management infrastructure, railways, roads, ports, airports infrastructure, and
other physical infrastructure (pipelines, cable ducts, collectors, manholes, retaining
structures, including towers, masts, buildings, building inlets, building engineering systems,
etc.) suitable for installing the electronic communications infrastructure and/or sharing it
with the provider of public communications networks.
13. Electronic communications resources shall mean radio frequencies (channels),
telephone numbers and other electronic communications networks identifiers, such as radio
call signs, orbital resources, including the position in a geostationary orbit, and other
resources necessary to carry out electronic communications activities, use electronic
communications networks or radio equipment or terminal equipment and provide electronic
communications services.
14. Assignment of electronic communications resources shall mean granting the
right to use electronic communication resources in accordance with the conditions set by
the Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter: 'the
Communications Regulatory Authority') by issuing an authorization.
15. Electronic communications service shall mean a service which is normally
provided for remuneration and which consists wholly or mainly in the conveyance of signals
via electronic communications networks, including telecommunications services and
transmission services over networks used for broadcasting (re-broadcasting). Electronic
communications services shall exclude services of providing, or exercising editorial control
over the content of information transmitted using electronic communications networks or
services; it does not include information society services which do not consist wholly or
mainly of the conveyance of signals over electronic communications networks.
16. Electronic communications network shall mean transmission systems and/or
switching or routing equipment and other facilities, including passive network elements,
which permit the conveyance of signals by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic
means, including satellite networks, fixed (circuit- and packet-switched, including the
Internet) and mobile terrestrial networks, powerline systems (to the extent that they are used
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