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Telecommunication.

"frequency tolerance" means the maximum deviation permissible between the frequency assigned to a station and the actual frequency of emission;

"general telecommunications system" includes the whole of the existing channels of telecommunication open to the public service, except the radiocommunication channels of the mobile service;

"government telegrams and radio telegrams" means those originating with

(a) the Head of a State;

(b) a Minister who is a member of a Government;

(c) the Head of a colony, protectorate, overseas territory or territory under suzerainty, authority or mandate of the Contracting Governments;

(d) Commanders in Chief of military forces, land, sea or air;

(e) diplomatic or consular agents of the Contracting Governments;

(f) the Secretary General of the United Nations; and also the replies to such communications;

"International service" means a telecommunication service between offices or stations of different countries or between stations of the mobile service, unless these latter are of the same nationality and are within the limits of the country to which they belong. An internal or national telecommunication service, which is capable of causing interference with other services outside the limits of the country in which it operates, is considered as an international service from the point of view of interference;

"International telephone circuit" means a telephone circuit connecting two telephone exchanges situated in two different countries;

"land station" means a station not capable of moving which performs a mobile service;

"mobile service" means a radiocommunication service effected between mobile stations themselves, special services excluded;

"mobile station" means a station capable of moving which ordinarily does move;

"normal route" means the route which must be chosen in the first place for the passing of telephone traffic in a particular service;

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