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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 15 May 2024 - onwards
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Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Article 2 of Directive 2002/21/EC apply.

The following definitions also apply:

(1) "provider of electronic communications to the public" means an undertaking providing public communications networks or publicly available electronic communications services;

(2) "internet access service" means a publicly available electronic communications service that provides access to the internet, and thereby connectivity to virtually all end points of the internet, irrespective of the network technology and terminal equipment used;

(3) "regulated intra-EU communications" means any number-based interpersonal communications service originating in the Member State of the consumer's domestic provider and terminating at any fixed or mobile number of the national numbering plan of another Member State, and which is charged wholly or partly based on actual consumption;