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1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 shall apply.

2. In addition to the definitions referred to in paragraph 1, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘roaming provider’ means an undertaking that provides a roaming customer with regulated retail roaming services;

(b) ‘domestic provider’ means an undertaking that provides a roaming customer with domestic mobile communications services;

(c) ‘home network’ means a public communications network located within a Member State and used by the roaming provider for the provision of regulated retail roaming services to a roaming customer;

(d) ‘visited network’ means a terrestrial public mobile communications network situated in a Member State other than that of the roaming customer’s domestic provider that permits a roaming customer to make or receive calls, to send or receive SMS messages or to use packet switched data communications, by means of arrangements with the home network operator;

(e) ‘Union-wide roaming’ means the use of a mobile device by a roaming customer to make or receive intra-Union calls, to send or receive intra-Union SMS messages, or to use packet switched data communications, while in a Member State other than that in which the network of the domestic provider is located, by means of arrangements between the home network operator and the visited network operator;

(f) ‘roaming customer’ means a customer of a roaming provider of regulated roaming services, by means of a terrestrial public mobile communications network situated in the Union, whose retail contract or arrangement with that roaming provider permits Union-wide roaming;

(g) ‘regulated roaming call’ means a mobile voice telephony call made by a roaming customer, originating on a visited network and terminating on a public communications network within the Union or received by a roaming customer, originating on a public communications network within the Union and terminating on a visited network;

(h) ‘SMS message’ means a Short Message Service text message, composed principally of alphabetical or numerical characters, or both, capable of being sent between mobile and/or fixed numbers assigned in accordance with national numbering plans;

(i) ‘regulated roaming SMS message’ means an SMS message sent by a roaming customer, originating on a visited network and terminating on a public communications network within the Union or received by a roaming customer, originating on a public communications network within the Union and terminating on a visited network;

(j) ‘regulated data roaming service’ means a roaming service enabling the use of packet switched data communications by a roaming customer by means of his mobile device while it is connected to a visited network, excluding the transmission or receipt of regulated roaming calls or SMS messages, but including the transmission and receipt of MMS messages;

(k) ‘wholesale roaming access’ means direct wholesale roaming access or wholesale roaming resale access;

(l) ‘direct wholesale roaming access’ means the making available of facilities or services, or both, by a mobile network operator to another undertaking, under defined conditions, for the purpose of that other undertaking providing regulated roaming services to roaming customers;

(m) ‘wholesale roaming resale access’ means the provision of roaming services on a wholesale basis by a mobile network operator different from the visited network operator to another undertaking for the purpose of that other undertaking providing regulated roaming services to roaming customers;

(n) ‘domestic retail price’ means a roaming provider’s domestic retail per-unit charge applicable to calls made and SMS messages sent, originating and terminating on different public communications networks within the same Member State, and to data consumed by a customer. With regard to the first subparagraph, point (n), in the event that there is no specific domestic retail per-unit charge, the domestic retail price shall be deemed to be the same charging mechanism as that applied to the customer for calls made and SMS messages sent, originating and terminating on different public communications networks within the same Member State, and data consumed in that customer’s Member State.