Translation of "Mobile communications operator " (English → French) :

Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and resellers of mobile communication services without their own network infrastructure typically provide roaming services based on commercial wholesale roaming agreements with their host mobile network operators in the same Member State.

(m) ‘alternative roaming provider’ means a home provider, different from the operator providing domestic mobile communication services, that provides a roaming customer with roaming services via its own network or as a mobile virtual network operator or reseller;

‘mobile telecommunication network operator’ or ‘mobile network operator’ means a provider of a public mobile wireless communications network.

"(f) 'roaming customer' means a customer of a provider of terrestrial public mobile communications services, by means of a terrestrial public mobile network situated in the Community, whose contract or arrangement with his home provider permits the use of a mobile telephone or other device to make or to receive calls or to send or receive SMS messages or to use packet switched data communications on a visited network by means of arrangements between the operator of the ho ...[+++]me network and the operator of the visited network; "

(29) In order to ensure end-to-end connectivity and interoperability for roaming customers of regulated roaming SMS services, national regulatory authorities should intervene in a timely manner in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of Directive 2002/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on access to, and interconnection of, electronic communications networks and associated facilities (Access Directive)and on a coordinated basis, as well as in accordance with the provisions of Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 717/2007 and Article 21 of Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Coun ...[+++]cil of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive), where a terrestrial mobile network operator established in one Member State complains to its national regulatory authority that its subscribers are unable to send or receive regulated roaming SMS to or from subscribers of a terrestrial mobile network located in another Member State as a result of a failure of the two operators concerned to conclude an agreement.

16. Calls on the Member States to pay regard, in the conditions for the roll-out of 3G network infrastructure, to the protection of health and the environment and to ensuring a smooth, swift roll-out; welcomes, in this connection, the encouraging efforts on the part of mobile communications network operators to improve transparency and dialogue with local authorities and the public; also stresses that cooperation between operators which assists the roll-out of networks (network infrastructure sharing) should be strongly supported;