Activities / Who the operator is

Provides telecom services

provides_telecom_services

Your app carries other people's calls, texts, or internet traffic, rather than only using someone else's network to reach its own users.

scope role
in the registry since 1.0
121 laws in 74 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It provides a public telecommunications network or an electronic communications service, including Internet access.

This covers a voice-over-internet calling service, a text-messaging carrier, and an internet service provider's own app.

What does not

A messaging app that rides on top of the public internet, without operating network infrastructure itself, does not count in the same way.

Often confused with Runs an essential service.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of 19 Oct 2026. The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of law	Laws	Jurisdictions
Cybersecurity law Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline. Determinazione ACN n. 164179 del 14 aprile 2025, Basic NIS Security Measures and Incident Notification Italy Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG), Section 165 Technical and Organisational Protective Measures Germany Real Decreto-ley 7/2022 on the Security of 5G Networks and Services, Duties of 5G Operators, Suppliers and Corporate Users Spain	84	55
Privacy law Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach. Commission Regulation on Personal Data Breach Notification by Electronic Communications Providers (Regulation (EU) No 611/2013) European Union Stored Communications Act, provider disclosure of customer communications and records United States Act C of 2003 on Electronic Communications, Section 156, Personal Data Breach Notification by Electronic Communications Providers Hungary	24	22
Communications law Get consent before marketing, calling, recording or storing data on a device, and honor an opt-out. Temporary Derogation for Detecting Online Child Sexual Abuse in Messaging Services European Union AGCOM Delibera 106/25/CONS, Annex B Article 8, Blocking of International Calls with a Spoofed Italian Calling Line Identity Italy Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz, Confidentiality of Communications (Fernmeldegeheimnis) Germany	9	7
Content moderation law Act on notice of unlawful content, explain moderation decisions, and report on them. Legge 93/2023, Articles 2 and 5, AGCOM Orders to Disable Access to Unlawfully Distributed Content Italy LCEN Article 12 (rewritten by the SREN Law), Warnings and Blocking Orders against Online Services Built to Imitate Another Service France Decreto-Lei n.º 7/2004, Duty to Inform the Public Prosecutor of Criminal Content and to Block Listed Sites within 48 Hours Portugal	3	3
AI law Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk. Ley 10/2025, Customer Service Rules for Automated Channels (Article 8 and Transitional Provision) Spain from 28 Dec 2026, in 2 months	1	1

In a declaration

A role says who operates a product, so it is declared in the product's own lexlint.yml and never in a component's ACTIVITIES.md: a library cannot make the product that uses it a regulated party.

In lexlint.yml

profile: activities: - provides_telecom_services

History

In the registry since version 1.0, 16 Oct 2026.

In the glossary: Provides telecom services.

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