The Satellite Communications Services Regulations 1995

PART II satellite licences granted to persons other than public telecommunications operators except for maxat limited, national transcommunications limited, satellite financial services ltd and teleport london international ltd

2.  In each of the licences the titles and dates of grant of which are listed in the table below, there shall be substituted for paragraph 3(ii) of the Service Authorisation in Schedule 3 to each such licence the following sub-paragraph—

“Messages which consist in live speech and have been or are to be conveyed both:

(i) by means of a Public Switched Network in the United Kingdom; and

(ii) by means of the equivalent of a Public Switched Network in another country or territory outside the United Kingdom;

provided that, in relation to services provided between a network termination point in the United Kingdom and a network termination point in another member State of the European Community or an EEA State, this sub-paragraph shall have effect as if it provided as follows:

“Messages which consist in public voice telephony and which have been or are to be conveyed both:

(i) by means of a Public Switched Network in the United Kingdom; and

(ii) by means of the equivalent of a Public Switched Network in another member State or EEA State,”and in this sub-paragraph—

(aa) “public voice telephony” means the commercial provision for the public of the direct transport and switching of speech in real-time between public switched network (or the equivalent in such other State) termination points, enabling any user to use equipment connected to such a network termination point in order to communicate with any other network termination point; and

(bb) “EEA State” means a State, not being a member State of the European Community, which is a Contracting Party to the European Economic Area Agreement.”.

TABLE

Title of licence	Date of grant
LICENCE GRANTED UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1984 TO PANAMSAT L.P. TO RUN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS FOR THE PROVISION OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES	19th April 1993
LICENCE GRANTED UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1984 TO E-SAT TELECOMMUNICATIONS LTD TO RUN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS FOR THE PROVISION OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES	2nd April 1993
LICENCE GRANTED UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1984 TO INCOM (UK) LTD TO RUN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS FOR THE PROVISION OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES	11th November 1993
LICENCE GRANTED UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1984 TO KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS (HULL) PLC TO RUN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS FOR THE PROVISION OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES	26th October 1993