General Agreement on Trade in Services (of WTO) (GATS)
Europe: Definition according to 2002/20/EC - Authorisation Directive
"general authorisation" means a legal framework established by the Member State ensuring rights for the provision of electronic communications networks or services and laying down sector specific obligations that may apply to all or to specific types of electronic communications networks and services, in accordance with this Directive;
Definition according to (97/13/EC):
'authorizations' means any permission setting out rights and obligations specific to the telecommunications sector and allowing undertakings to provide telecommunications services and, where applicable, to establish and/or operate telecommunications networks for the provision of such services, in the form of a 'general authorization' or 'individual licence', as defined below:
'general authorization' means an authorization, regardless of whether it is regulated by a 'class licence' or under general law and whether such regulation requires registration, which does not require the undertaking concerned to obtain an explicit decision by the national regulatory authority before exercising the rights stemming from the authorization,
'individual licence' means an authorization which is granted by a national regulatory authority and which gives an undertaking specific rights or which subjects that undertaking's operations to specific obligations supplementing the general authorization where applicable, where the undertaking is not entitled to exercise the rights concerned until it has received the decision by the national regulatory authority;
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)
"Generic Top Level Domains" ("gTLDs") means the TLDs ".com", ".org", ".net" as defined in RFC 1591, and those TLDs established in or under the auspices of Signatories to this MoU
(MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING on the Generic Top Level Domain Name Space of the Internet Space of the Internet Domain Name System (gTLD - MoU)).
Europe: Definition according to 2002/22/EC - Universal Service Directive
"geographic number" means a number from the national numbering plan where part of its digit structure contains geographic significance used for routing calls to the physical location of the network termination point (NTP);
Definition according to Com(2000)392
"geographic number" means a number from the national numbering plan where part of its digit structure contains geographic significance used for routing calls to the physical location of the NTP of the subscriber to whom the number has been assigned.
Definition according to (97/33/EC)
"geographic number" means a number from the national numbering plan where part of its digit structure contains geographic significance used for routing calls to the physical location of the network termination point of the subscriber to whom the number has been assigned
Geostationary Orbit Fixed Satellite Service (GSO FSS)
Global Mobile Multimedia (GMM)
concept developed by ETSI
Global Mobile Personal Communications Services Memorandum of Understanding (GMPCS MoU)
(of ITU)
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS)
(of the Russian Federation)
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Satellite system used, inter alia, for maritime, air and terrestrial navigation providing extremely accurate location and positioning information for ships, planes, vehicles or individuals throughout the world that carry a GPS receiver.
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)
Golden numbers are telephone numbers that distinguish themselves from all other numbers in a given number range because they are attractive to have, are easy to learn or remember, subjectively pleasing or are in use and known by the general public or client base. Golden numbers may have a big commercial value. For instance, the digits that relate to "FLOWERS" on the standardised alphanumeric keyboard may have special value to a flower service.
Government Advisory Committee (GAC)
ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee
Europe: Green Papers, in the European Union context, are European Commission consultative documents setting out basic policy goals for public debate.
Group of High Level Regulators
Europe: An ad hoc group established in 1993 which is composed of the high level representatives of the Member States and the Commission. Set up under Resolution 93/C213 of 22 July 1993.