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 2888 De1InltlODll. Terms specified. Scope ot the Conven- jon. INTERNATIONAL RADIO CONVENTION. NOVEMBER 2~, 1927. Siam, Italian Somaliland, Sweden, Switzerland, Surinam, Syro- Libanese Territories.). Republic of Sl}.n Marino, Czechoslovakia, Tripolitania, Tunis, Turkey, Uru~ay, and Venezuela. The undersigned, plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the countries enumerated above, having met in conference at Wash- ington, have, by common accord and subject to ratification, concluded the following Convention: ARTICLE 1 Definitions In the present Convention: The term "radio communication," applies to the transmission by radio of writing, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds of all kinds by means of Hertzian waves. The term "radio communication station" or simply "station" means a station equipped to:larry on radio communications. The term "fixed station" means a station permanently located and communicating with one or more stations similarly located. The term "mobile station" means a station capable of moving and which ordinarly does move. The term "land station" means a station other than a mobile station used for radio communication with mobile stations. The term "mobile service" means the radio communication service carried on between mobile stations and land stations, and by mobile stations communicating among themselves. The term "internatIOnal service" means a radio communication service between a station in one country and a station in another country, or between a land station and a mobile station located outside the limits of the counto/, in which the land station is situated, or between two or more mobile stations on 01" over the high seas. An internal or na.tional radio communication service which IS likely to cause interference with other services outside the limits of the country in which it operates is considered as an international service from the viewpoint of interference. The term "general communication system" means all the existing telegraph and telephone channels of communication, wire and radio, open to public service, but excluding the radio communication chan- nels of the mobile service. The term "public service" means a service for the use of the general public. . The term "limited service" means a service which may be used on!y by specified persons or for specific purposes. The term "public correspondence" means all radio communica. - tions which a station, by reason of being open to public service, must accept from the public for transmission. The term "private enterprise" means any person, company, or corporation which operatei:l one or more statIOns for radio com- munication. The term "radiotelegram" means a telegram originating in or destined to a mobile stati~, transmitted by radio over all or pari of its route. ARTICLE 2 Scope oj the Oon'/;'ention §1. The contracting Governments undertake to apply the pro- visions of the present Convention to all radio communication stations established, or operated by the contracting Governments, and open

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