English: Definitions For purposes of this Chapter: 1. authorized equipment means terminal or other equipment that has been approved for attachment to the public telecommunications transport network in accordance with a Party's conformity assessment procedures; conformity assessment procedure means "conformity assessment procedure" as defined in Article 915 (Standards-Related Measures - Definitions), and includes the procedures referred to in Annex 1310; enhanced or valueadded services means those telecommunications services employing computer processing applications that: 1. act on the format, content, code, protocol or similar aspects of a customer's transmitted information; 2. provide a customer with additional, different or restructured information; or 3. involve customer interaction with stored information; 2. flat-rate pricing basis means pricing on the basis of a fixed charge per period of time regardless of the amount of use; intracorporate communications means telecommunications through which an enterprise communicates: 1. internally or with or among its subsidiaries, branches or affiliates, as defined by each Party, or 2. on a noncommercial basis with other persons that are fundamental to the economic activity of the enterprise and that have a continuing contractual relationship with it,   but does not include telecommunications services provided to persons other than those described herein; 3. network termination point means the final demarcation of the public telecommunications transport network at the customer's premises;  private network means a telecommunications transport network that is used exclusively for intracorporate communications; protocol means a set of rules and formats that govern the exchange of information between two peer entities for purposes of transferring signaling or data information;  public telecommunications transport network means public telecommunications infrastructure that permits telecommunications between defined network termination points; public telecommunications transport networks or services means public telecommunications transport networks or public telecommunications transport services; public telecommunications transport service means any telecommunications transport service required by a Party, explicitly or in effect, to be offered to the public generally, including telegraph, telephone, telex and data transmission, that typically involves the real-time transmission of customer-supplied information between two or more points without any end-to-end change in the form or content of the customer's information; standards-related measure means a "standards-related measure" as defined in Article 915; telecommunications means the transmission and reception of signals by any electromagnetic means; and terminal equipment means any digital or analog device capable of processing, receiving, switching, signaling or transmitting signals by electromagnetic means and that is connected by radio or wire to a public telecommunications transport network at a termination point.
French: DÃ©finitions Aux fins du prÃ©sent chapitre : 1. communications internes des sociÃ©tÃ©s s'entend des tÃ©lÃ©communications par lesquelles une entreprise communique 1. sur le plan interne ou avec ses filiales, succursales ou sociÃ©tÃ©s affiliÃ©es, selon le sens donnÃ© Ã ces termes par chacune des Parties, ou 2. sur une base non commerciale avec les autres personnes qui sont essentielles Ã ses activitÃ©s Ã©conomiques et qui entretiennent une relation contractuelle permanente avec elle,  mais ne s'applique pas aux services de tÃ©lÃ©communications fournis Ã des personnes autres que celles dÃ©crites dans les prÃ©sentes; 2. Ã©quipements autorisÃ©s s'entend des Ã©quipements terminaux ou autres dont le raccordement au rÃ©seau public de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications a Ã©tÃ© approuvÃ© en vertu des procÃ©dures d'Ã©valuation de la conformitÃ© d'une Partie; Ã©quipements terminaux s'entend de tout dispositif numÃ©rique ou analogique apte Ã traiter, Ã recevoir, Ã commuter, Ã Ã©mettre ou Ã transmettre des signaux par moyen Ã©lectromagnÃ©tique et qui est reliÃ© par radio ou par fil Ã un point terminal d'un rÃ©seau public de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications; mesure normative a le mÃªme sens qu'Ã l'article 915; point terminal du rÃ©seau s'entend de la dÃ©marcation finale entre le rÃ©seau public de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications et les installations du client; procÃ©dure d'Ã©valuation de la conformitÃ© a le mÃªme sens qu'Ã l'article 915 (Mesures normatives DÃ©finitions) et comprend les procÃ©dures visÃ©es Ã l'annexe 1310; protocole dÃ©signe un ensemble de rÃ¨gles et de structures qui rÃ©gissent l'Ã©change d'informations entre deux entitÃ©s Ã©quivalentes aux fins du transfert de signaux ou de donnÃ©es; rÃ©seau privÃ© s'entend d'un rÃ©seau de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications exclusivement rÃ©servÃ© aux communications internes des sociÃ©tÃ©s; rÃ©seau public de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications s'entend de l'infrastructure publique de tÃ©lÃ©communications qui permet les tÃ©lÃ©communications entre points terminaux dÃ©finis du rÃ©seau; rÃ©seaux ou services publics de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications s'entend des rÃ©seaux publics de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications ou des services publics de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications; services amÃ©liorÃ©s ou services Ã valeur ajoutÃ©e s'entend des services de tÃ©lÃ©communications faisant appel Ã des applications de traitement informatique 1. qui interviennent au niveau de la structure, du contenu, du code, du protocole ou d'aspects semblables des informations transmises pour le compte d'un client, 2. qui fournissent aux clients des informations supplÃ©mentaires, diffÃ©rentes ou restructurÃ©es, ou 3. qui permettent aux clients de consulter en mode interactif les informations stockÃ©es; 3. services publics de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications s'entend des services de transport des tÃ©lÃ©communications qu'une Partie prescrit, expressÃ©ment ou de fait, d'offrir au publicen gÃ©nÃ©ral.