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-In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires :-
(a) Answer-back code means a combination of characters used to provide a short code to identify the subscriber :
(i) Auto -transmitter means an apparatus used for transmission of perforated tapes.
(ii) Call means a conversation between two or more subscribers connected to the same exchange and includes a conversation with such other service connected with the telephone system as may be specified by the Telegraph Authority ;
(b) Called person means a subscriber with whom a caller wishes to speak;
(c) Caller means a subscriber who registers his demand for a trunk call;
(i) 'Collect call' means a call for which the person booking the trunk call specifies, while booking it, that he wishes the call to be paid for by the called party ;
(d) Combined office means a post office which is in telegraphic communication with a Government telegraph office, or at which telegrams may be handed in for despatch by messenger to the nearest telegraph office for on ward transmission ;
(i) "Commutator board" means an equipment for terminating telegraph circuits so as to facilitate interconnection between any two desired circuits;
(ii) 'Credit Card facility' means a facility whereunder a subscriber or his representative who has applied for and been issued under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the telegraph authority with a Credit Card may make trunk calls from any telephone, public or private, to any other telephone and have the charges debited against the telephone subscriber specified in the credit card ;
(e) Departmental exchange means a telephone exchange which is installed, maintained and controlled by the telegraph Authority ;
(f) Departmental telegraph office means a telegraph office dealing only with telegrams and maintained and worked under the direction and control of the Director-General ;
(f) (i) "Dialling unit" means an equipment associated with the subscriber's teleprinter machine to enable calls being set up automatically :
(g) Direct exchange line is a telephone connection directly working on a departmental exchange;
(h) Director-General means the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs ;
(i) Divisional Engineer means a Divisional Engineer, Telegraph or Telephones and includes all Heads of Telephone District and any other officer who may be empowered to discharge the functions of the Divisional Engineer under these rules ;
(j) Double period or unit means a period in excess of three minutes but not in excess of six minutes ;
(k) Exchange system means any Departmental Telephone Exchange or Exchanges and any lines connected therewith declared by the Telegraph Authority to be an exchange system ;
(l) Extension means a subsidiary telephone connection having access to the exchange line with or without the intervention of the main station;
(m) External extension means an extension other than an internal extension;
(n) Fixed time call means a trunk call between two numbers which is to be put through at or about a specified time ;
(o) Flat rate system means a system of charging on telephones under which a subscriber is required to pay a fixed annual rental for the line connecting his telephone to any exchange within the exchange system, but not any call fees for local calls from his telephones ;
(p) Government telegraph office includes departmental telegraph offices and combined offices ;
(q) Internal extension means an extension located in the same building in which the main connection is working ;
(r) International telephone service means a trunk call service between India and any other country except Ceylon, Nepal and Pakistan ;
(s) Interpolated Public Call Office means a public call office which is opened on a trunk line between two exchanges ;
(t) Junction line means a line connecting any two exchanges in an exchange system or connecting a departmental exchange with a private branch exchange or an exchange of a licensee or a privately owned exchange ;
(u) Late fee means a fee payable, in addition to the prescribed call charges for a local or trunk call, made from or to a Public Call Office outside its regular working hours.
(v) Licensed telegraph office means a telegraph office maintained and worked for the purpose of receiving and transmitting paid telegrams under a license granted under Section 4 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885) ;
(w) Local area means the area within 5 Kilometres radial distance from a telephone exchange or where the Telegraph Authority has declared any area served by an exchange system to be a local area for the purpose of telephone connection, such area ;
(x) Local call means a call from a subscriber's line to another line on any exchange within the same exchange system ;
(y) (i) "Local circuit" means a circuit provided between a telegraph office and the party's premises ;
(y) (ii) "Local Leads" means the circuit provided between a Voice Frequency Telegraph Station, carrier station or Trunk exchange on one side and party's premises on the other, ;
(z) Measured Rate system means a system of a charging of telephone under which a subscriber pays a fixed annual rental for the line connecting his telephone to any exchange within the exchange system and entitles him to make calls free of charge upto a specified number of call units during a fixed period, each call unit in excess of that number being charged at the prescribed fates.
(aa) Message rate system means a system of charging on telephones under which a subscriber, besides paying a fixed annual rental for the line connecting his telephone to any exchange within the exchange system, is also required to pay call fees for each call from his telephone at rates prescribed for such calls ;
(bb) Messenger service means a facility at Public Call Offices for a particular called person at a given address being sent for under such conditions and on payment of such charges as the Telegraph Authority may prescribe;
(bba) Meter demand service means manual trunk telephone service established between stations where the charging is effected automatically on the calling subscriber's telephone meter not involving preparation of trunk call tickets ;
(bb) (i) 'Number-to-Number Call' is a trunk call exchanged between a specified telephone number at one station and another specified telephone number at another station ;
(cc) Own your telephone scheme means a scheme under which the subscriber makes an initial lump sum payment towards the rental for the line connecting his telephone to any exchange within the exchange system, and in consideration thereof is allowed a reduction in the annual rental payable by him for a specified period;
(dd) Parent exchange to a Public Call Office is the telephone exchange to which it is directly connected ;
(ee) Particular person call means a trunk call where the caller wishes to speak to a specified person ;
(ff) Party line connection is a telephone connection where 2 or more parties share in a common line to a departmental exchange ;
(i) 'Person -to -Person call' is a trunk call arranged from a specified individual at one station to another specified individual at another station whether these persons be subscribers or not ;
(gg) Phonogram means a telegraphic message sent to or received from a telegraph office by a subscriber over the telephone ;
(hh) Postal receiving office means a post office which is not in telegraphic communication with a Government telegraph office but at which inland telegrams may be handed in for despatch by post, without additional charge, to a telegraph office for onward transmission;
(ii) Postmaster-General means a Postmaster-General as defined in Section 2 of the Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (4 of 1898) ; "Printing perforator" means an apparatus used for preparing perforated tapes which can be fed through an auto transmitter ;
(jj) Private branch exchange means an exchange provided for any one party and connected to a departmental exchange ;
(kk) Private exchange means a telephone exchange provided exclusively for the use of an organisation or an individual and not connected to the public network ;
(ll) Private wires are those which connect two subscribers through a departmental exchange system whether a private wire relay set is installed at the exchange or not and are not connected to the local telephone system and to the general trunk net work.
(mm) Private wire junction means a line connecting two private exchanges;
(nn) Public call office means a telephone office for the use of the general public during specified hours on payment of the prescribed fees;
(i) "Local public call office" means a public call office connected to an exchange and situated within the local area of an exchange system;
(ii) "Interpolated public call office" means a public call office not connected to an exchange by a separate line of its own but interpolated on a direct trunk line between two exchanges ;
(iii) "Long distance public call office" means a public call office which is not a local public call office or an interpolated public call office;
(iv) "Reversed charge call" means a trunk call which a person is authorised to make from any public call office to a specified telephone number without pre-payment of the charges for such a call, the charges being recoverable from the called subscriber ;
(oo) Single period or unit means a period of three minutes or part thereof;
(pp) Subscriber means a person to whom a telephone service has been provided by means of an installation under these rules or under an agreement;
(qq) Subscription fixed time call means a fixed time call between two numbers for 5 or more consecutive days excluding Sundays and Telegraph holidays;
(rr) Telecommunication means any transmission, emission or reception signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligences of any nature, by wire, radio, visual or other electromagnetic system;
(ss) Telegram means written matter intended to be transmitted by telegraphy and includes a "radio-telegram" ;
(ss) (i) "Telegraph circuit" means a medium used for dissemination of written matter or messages ;
(tt) Telegraph office includes a Government telegraph office and a licensed telegraph office, but does not include a military field telegraph office;
(uu) Telegraphy means a system of telecommunication for the transmission of written matter by the use of a signal code ;
(vv) Telephony means a system of telecommunications set up for the transmission of speech or other sound ;
(i) "Teleprinter machine" means an apparatus used on the terminal of a telegraph circuit for printing messages ;
(ii) "Ticker connection" means a circuit provided between the main office of a News Agency and its constituents in the same station;
(ww) Trunk call means a call on a trunk line ;
(xx) Trunk line means a telephone line connecting an exchange system with another exchange system or a public call office on which a fee is levied for a conversation on the basis of the duration of the conversation ;
(yy) Subscriber Trunk Dialling facility (S T.D.) means the facility where by subscribers can obtain trunk calls without the assistance of operators by the use of the dial provided.
(zz) Non-exchange lines are those which connect two subscribers without any departmental exchange intervening. "(aaa) FIRE ALARM SERVICE means a service consisting of a switch board at the Fire Brigade Station with lines extending upto Telephone instruments in the Fire Alarm Pillars.
(bbb) RIFLE RANGE CONNECTION means a telephone communication between the Markers' hut at a Rifle Range and the different firing points along the Range."