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2. In this Order—
“the Act” means the Communications Act 2003;
“disability” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1);
“network termination point” means the physical point at which a subscriber is provided with access to a public electronic communications network and in the case of electronic communications networks involving switching or routing, the network termination point is identified by means of a specific electronic communications network address, which may be linked to a subscriber’s number or name;
“publicly available telephone service” means a service available to the public for originating and receiving national and international calls and access to emergency services through a telephone number or numbers in a national or international telephone numbering plan, and may, where relevant, also include one or more of the following—
the provision of operator assistance,
directory enquiry facilities,
directories,
the provision of public pay telephones,
the provision of service under special terms,
the provision of specific facilities for end-users with a disability or with special social needs, and
the provision of non-geographic services;
“public pay telephone” means a telephone available to the general public, for the use of which the means of payment may include one or more of the following:
coins;
credit or debit cards; and
pre-payment cards, including cards for use with dialling codes;
“public telephone network” means an electronic communications network which is used to provide publicly available telephone services and supports the transfer between network termination points of speech communications, and also other forms of communications, such as facsimile and data;
“relay service” means a service which:
provides facilities for the receipt and translation of voice messages into text and text into voice messages, and the conveyance of that text or voice message to the textphone of subscribers of a person providing a publicly available telephone service; and
has been approved as a text relay service by OFCOM;
“subscriber” means any person who is a party to a contract with the provider of a public electronic communications service for the supply of such service; and
“textphone” means an integrated terminal incorporating an alphanumeric keyboard and means of displaying text, intended for connection to the public telephone network for the sole or primary purpose of supporting live telephone conversations between two or more individuals.
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