32 Meaning of electronic communications networks and services
Communications Act 2003 (2003 c 21) | Legislation

Part 2 Networks, Services and the Radio Spectrum

Chapter 1
Electronic Communications Networks and Services

Preliminary

32  Meaning of electronic communications networks and services

(1)     In this Act “electronic communications network” means—

(a)     a transmission system for the conveyance, by the use of electrical, magnetic or electro-magnetic energy, of signals of any description; and

(b)     such of the following as are used, by the person providing the system and in association with it, for the conveyance of the signals—

(i)     apparatus comprised in the system;

(ii)     apparatus used for the switching or routing of the signals; . . .

(iii)     software and stored data[; and

(iv)     (except for the purposes of sections 125 to 127) other resources, including network elements which are not active].

[(2)     In this Act “electronic communications service” means a service of any of the types specified in subsection (2A) provided by means of an electronic communications network, except so far as it is a content service.

(2A)     Those types of service are—

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