Communications
2003 No. 19
persons, things and things, or persons and things, in the form of sound, data, text,
visual images, signals or any other form or any combination of those forms ;
“Communications sector” or ‘’market’’ means an economic sector or market for
a network service, or an applications service, or for goods or services used in
conjunction with a network service or an applications service, or for access to facilities
used in conjunction with· either a network service or an applications service ;
“Consolidated Revenue Fund” means the Fund established by section 80 of
the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 ;
“Consumer”, “customer”, or “subscriber” means any person who subscribes
to and uses a communication service ;
“Content” means any sound; text, still picture, moving picture or other
audiovisual representation, tactile representation or any combination of the
preceding which is capable of being created, manipulated, stored, retrieved or
communicated electronically ;
“Content applications service” means an applications service which provides
content ;
“Council” means the Federal Executive Council of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ;
“Court” means a court of law of competent jurisdiction ;
“Customer equipment” means any equipment, whether hardware or software,
or device, used on the customer side of the network boundary ;
“Direction” means a direction issued by the Commission under Part I of
Chapter V ;
“Equipment” means any equipment or apparatus used or intended to be used for
communications and that is part of or connected to or comprises a communications
system ;
“Federal Government” means the Federal Government of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria;
“Individual licence” means a licence for a specified person to conduct a
specified activity and may include conditions to which the conduct of that activity
shall be subject ;
“Instrument” includes a direction, determination or declaration ;
“Intercept” means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any
communications through the use of any electronic,’ mechanical or other equipment,
device or apparatus ;
“·Interception capability” means the capability of any network facilities or
network service or applications service to intercept communications under section
147 of this Act;
“Interconnection” means the physical and logical linking and connection of
communications systems used or operated by the same or different licensees in
order to convey messages to and from the respective systems for the provision of
services ;
“ITU” means International Telecommunications Union ;
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