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Short Title Definition
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Cable Landing Station

or “CLS” means the station where fibers of the international or domestic submarine cable gets terminated and it houses the Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE) and Power Feeding Equipment (PFE);

Cable Landing Station-Point Of Presence

or “CLS-PoP” means a type of CLS, where some fiber pairs of the submarine cable extended from the CLS are terminated and it houses SLTE;

Call

means a connection established by means of telecommunication that enables voice communication;

Calling Line Identification

or “CLI” means the identity of the calling or originating user in terms of the telecommunication identifier assigned or any other identification as may be specified by the Central Government from time to time;

Captive Non-Public Network

or “CNPN” means a terrestrial wireless telecommunication network established for captive use within a specified geographical area, which cannot be used for providing commercial or public telecommunication services to users.

Captive Telecommunication Services

means captive telecommunication services as identified and authorised under the Telecommunications (Authorisation For Provision of Captive Telecommunication Services) Rules, 2025;

Chief Telecommunication Security Officer

means the Chief Telecommunication Security Officer appointed under rule 6 of the Telecommunications (Telecom Cyber Security) Rules, 2024;

Cloud-Hosted Telecommunication Network

or “CTN” shall have the same meaning as provided in the Telecommunications (Authorisation for Telecommunication Network) Rules, 2025.

Cloud-Hosted Telecommunication Network (Ctn) Provider

shall have the same meaning as provided in the Telecommunications (Authorisation for Telecommunication Network) Rules, 2025.

Companies Act

means the Companies Act, 1956 or the Companies Act, 2013, as the case may be;