This Joint Action lays down the obligations of network operators and service providers in providing information and assistance, pursuant to national legal provisions on the interception of telecommunications. Any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical closed or open systems. Access to the telecommunications traffic passing over a connection and delivery of call associated data to the law enforcement agencies. A telecommunications service consists of the transmission and routing of telecommunications.
Cryptography is the encryption of telecommunications.
The technical capability to interface with a communications facility, such as a communications line or switch, so that law enforcement agencies can acquire and monitor telecommunications and call associated data carried on the facility. The interception interface is not necessarily a single, fixed point. The quality specification of a communications channel, system, virtual channel, computer-communications session, etc. The probability that a system or service will perform in a satisfactory manner for a given period of time when used under specified operating conditions. The ability of subscribers of mobile telecommunications services to place, maintain, and receive calls when they are located outside their designated home serving area.