“class licence” means a licence issued pursuant to Part IV of this Act to a defined
class of service providers and which applies to a person falling within the defined
class without that person having to apply for the licence;
“commencement date” means the date on which this Act comes into force, as
specified in Section 1 (2);
“Commission” means the governing body of the Liberia Telecommunications
Authority (“LTA”) appointed pursuant to Section 9 (1);
“Commissioner” means any of the five persons appointed to the Commission
pursuant to Sections 9 (1) to 9 (4);
“confirm” means confirmation of any appointment by the Senate;
“control” means the power to determine the actions of another person in any manner,
whether directly through the ownership of shares or other securities or indirectly
through an agreement or arrangement of any type;
“customer”, except as otherwise indicated, means any subscriber or consumer of
telecommunications services, whether an individual, corporation, governmental body
or other public or private legal entity and regardless of whether the services are
acquired for the customer’s own use;
“decision” means any decision rendered by the LTA pursuant to this Act, or any
regulation, rule or order;
“dominant service provider” means a service provider designated to have significant
market power or otherwise to be dominant in one or more telecommunications
service markets pursuant to Sections 27 (d) and 36 of the Act;
“exemption order” means an order made by the LTA pursuant to Section 17;
“Government” means the then current and duly authorized government of the
Republic of Liberia;
“individual licence” means a licence issued pursuant to Part IV of this Act to an
individual person upon the application of that person;
“interconnection” means the physical and logical linking of telecommunications
networks used by the same or a different service provider in order to allow the users
of one service provider to communicate with users of the same or another service
provider, or to access the facilities and/or services of another service provider. For
the purposes of this Act, the term interconnection includes ‘access’, meaning the
making available of telecommunications facilities or services by one service provider
to another for the purpose of providing telecommunications services. To facilitate
this, government will tax all international calls. Rate of tax to be determined by the
LTA;
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