Special service or special radiocommunication service is – according to ''Article 1.60'' of the
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...
's (ITU)
Radio Regulations
Radio regulation refers to the regulation and licensing of radio in international law, by individual governments, and by municipalities.
International regulation
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialized agency of the Unit ...
(RR) – defined as "''A radiocommunication service, not otherwise defined in this Section (ITU, RR, Section III – Radio services), carried on exclusively for specific needs of general utility, and not open to public correspondence''."
However, the meaning of ''public correspondence''
[The definition: ''public correspondence'' is – accordance to the ''International Telecommunication Convention '' (Malaga-Torrelmolinos 1973)“] is – according to the ''International Telecommunication Convention'' – defined as "''Any
telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...
which the offices and
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
s must, by reason of their being at the disposal of the public, accept for
transmission''."
See also
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Radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
*
Radiocommunication service
Radio communication service or radiocommunication service is according to Article 1.19 of the International Telecommunication Union's Radio Regulations (ITU RR),ITU Radio Regulations, Section III – Radio services, Article 1.19, definition: Ra ...
References
External links
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Radiocommunication services ITU
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