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19) state of establishment means any State where an information society service provider in
fact pursues an economic activity using a fixed establishment;
20) sponsorship means any financing or other economic support of audiovisual content
services, audiovisual programmes, radio programmes or radio broadcasting with a view to
promoting the product sales of the sponsor or its reputation, and the sponsor does not produce
programmes or radio programmes nor does it provide content services or carry out radio
broadcasting;
21) protected name or trademark means a name or trademark that has been entered into the
trade register or into the registers of trademarks, associations, foundations, or political parties;
or an established name, a secondary mark or trademark referred to in the Business Names Act
(128/1979) or Trademarks Act (7/1964); or a name of a public body, unincorporated state
enterprise, independent public corporation, public association, or diplomatic mission of a
foreign State or its bodies;
22) electronic communication means information that is distributed electronically;
23) telecommunications device means radio equipment, telecommunications terminal
equipment and communications network devices;
24) teleshopping means television broadcasts of sales or purchase offers;
25) telecommunications terminal equipment means equipment which, for the purpose of
transmitting, processing or receiving messages, is designed to be joined by means of cabling
and wiring, radio, optically or in some other electromagnetic manner, either directly to a
subscriber connection in a public communications network or to function in conjunction with
such a network by being directly or indirectly linked to a subscriber connection in a public
communications network;
26) television broadcasting means the authentic and simultaneous transmission of
programmes consisting of audiovisual programmes to the audience on the basis of a
programme schedule;
27) telecommunications operator means a network operator or a communications service
operator offering services to a set of users that is not subject to any prior restriction, i.e.
provides public telecommunications services;
28) information security means the administrative and technical measures taken to ensure
that data are only accessible by those who are entitled to use it, that data can only be modified
by those who are entitled to do so, and that data and information systems can be used by those
who are entitled to use them;
29) information society service means services provided as electronic distance services
usually requested by recipients against payment;
30) subscriber means a legal or natural person who is party to an agreement concerning the
provision of a communications service or an added value service for a purpose other than
telecommunications operations;
31) subscriber connection means the part of a fixed communications network between the
subscriber's connection and the devices that make it possible to route communication;
32) video-on-demand service means a service provided for the viewing of audiovisual
programmes on the basis of a catalogue of programmes;
33) safety radio communication means radio communication employed to safeguard and
rescue human lives and property;
34) network service means a service a telecommunications operator (network operator)
provides comprising a communications network in its ownership or for other reasons in its
possession for the purposes of transmitting or distributing messages;
35) domain name means second-level address information on the Internet under the national
country code Top Level Domain .fi or the region code Top Level Domain .ax consisting of
letters, digits or other characters or their combination in the form of a name;