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Republic of Latvia
PUBLIC UTILIITIES COMMISSION
Decision No. 23
26 January 2005
On Regulations “List of Electronic Communications Networks and
Electronic Communications Services”
In accordance with the coming into force of Section 17, Paragraph one of the Administrative
Procedure Law and on the basis of Section 9, Paragraph two of the Law “On Regulators of
Public Utilities” and Section 8, Paragraph two and Section 32, Paragraph one of the
Electronic Communications Law,
the Commission has decided to:
1. Approve the Regulations “List of Electronic Communications Networks and Electronic
Communications Services” (Annex).
2. Prescribe that the Regulations provided for in Paragraph one of this decision shall come
into force on the day following its publication in the newspaper “Latvijas Vēstnesis” [the
official Gazette of the government of Latvia].
This decision shall come into force upon the adoption thereof.
Chair of the Public Utilities Commission
I. Šteinbuka
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Regulations “List of Electronic Communications Networks and Electronic
Communications Services”
Issued pursuant to Section 32, Paragraph one of the
Electronic Communications Law
Terms used in these Regulations:
1. The following terms shall be used in these Regulations:
1.1. leased line services – publicly accessible electronic communications services,
which ensure an allocated or established permanent communications channel in the public
electronic communications network;
1.2. public data and electronic messages services – publicly accessible electronic
communications services, which ensure signal transmission or routing in public electronic
communications networks, except for public Internet access, voice telephony and the
distribution services of radio or television programmes in public electronic communications
networks;
1.3. public Internet access services – publicly accessible electronic communications
services, which ensure signal transmission or routing between the terminal equipment and the
equipment belonging to the Internet service provider (server, router, etc.) for downloading or
uploading data in the Internet data transmission network;
1.4. public payphone services – publicly accessible electronic communications
services, which for a charge (with coins, a prepaid card or a credit card) ensure electronic
communication in the electronic communications terminal equipment installed in public
places by a merchant;
1.5. public fixed electronic communications networks – publicly accessible
electronic communications networks, which provide for the provision of electronic
communications services where the end user mostly uses fixed terminal equipment;
1.6. public mobile electronic communications networks – publicly accessible
electronic communications networks, which provide for the provision of electronic
communications services where the end user mostly uses mobile terminal equipment;
1.7. public electronic communications network services – the ensuring of access to
electronic communications networks to other electronic communications merchants who are
not end users;
1.8. distribution services of radio or television programmes in public electronic
communications networks – publicly accessible electronic communications services, which
ensure service users with the option of access to radio or television programmes; and
1.9. interconnection services – the ensuring of interconnections for other electronic
communications merchants.
II. Electronic Communications Networks
2. An electronic communications merchant shall send a registration notification to the
Commission before ensuring the following electronic communications networks:
2.1. public fixed electronic communications networks; or,
2.2. public mobile electronic communications networks.
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III. Electronic Communications Services
3. An electronic communications merchant shall send a registration notification to the
Commission before the commencement of provision of the following electronic
communications services:
3.1. voice telephony services;
3.2. public payphone services;
3.3. public data and electronic messages services;
3.4. leased line services;
3.5. public Internet access services;
3.6. distribution services of radio or television programmes in public electronic
communications networks;
3.7. public electronic communications networks services; or,
3.8. interconnection services.
Chair of the Public Utilities Commission.
I. Šteinbuka
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