Traduction de «réseau téléphonique général avec commutation » (Français → Anglais) :

"public telephone network" means transmission systems and switching or routing equipment and other resources which are used to provide publicly available telephone services; it supports the transfer between network termination points of speech communications, and also other forms of communication, such as fax and data; connection to the public telephone network at a fixed location may take place via wireless as well as wire-line means ;

As part of the European Union's general policy of opening the doors of every sector of social activity to big business, the regulation which we are examining today gives the monopolies what is perhaps the most important chunk of the telecommunications network.

the Council and the Commission confirm the principle that costs, arising from legislative measures, incurred in combating crime, should be met by law enforcement agencies; in cases where, according to Union or national law, the cooperation of private entities, such as Internet service providers and network operators, is required for storing data, wiretapping, preservation and other requests which increase costs, these costs must be reimbursed; network operators/service providers must not be held responsible if they are unable to comply with contract obligations or for damages due to law enforcement requests (no liability); in general, ...[+++] notes that the Internet should be available to all and that the cost thereof should therefore be kept at as low a level as possible, in accordance with the conclusions of the Lisbon summit;

(15) The obligation to publish standard charges and interconnection conditions is without prejudice to the requirement on undertakings in a dominant position, under Article 86 of the Treaty, to negotiate special or tailor-made agreements for a particular combination or use of unbundled public switched telephony network components and/or the granting of discounts for particular service providers or large users where these are justified and non-discriminatory. Any interconnection discounts should be justified on an objective basis and be transparent.

2. Member States shall ensure in particular that the telecommunications organizations publish, no later than 1 July 1997, the terms and conditions for interconnection to the basic functional components of their voice telephony service and their public switched telecommunications networks, including the interconnection points and the interfaces offered according to market needs.

8'. telex service' means the commercial provision for the public of direct transport of telex messages in accordance with the relevant 'Comité consultatif international télégraphique et téléphonique' (CCITT) recommendation via the public switched network or networks, whereby any user can use equipment connected to a network termination point to communicate with another user using another termination point;