Electronic Communications Act, 2008
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"International Telecommunications Union Treaties" includes
the Constitution, the Convention and the Regulations of
the International Telecommunication Union;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for electronic
communications;
"network" means electronic communication network;
"network operator" means a person licensed under this Act to
operate a public electronic communications network;
"network termination point" means the point designated for
connection of terminal equipment by a user to electronic
communications network;
"prescribe" means prescribed by Regulations made under this
Act;
"private electronic communications service" means electronic
communications service used within one enterprise or any
body corporate with which it is affiliated, to satisfy its internal
needs and operated without interconnection to a public
electronic communications network that enables electronic
communications to persons other than within the enterprise
or the body corporate;
"public ground" includes any open or enclosed space to which
the public has or is permitted to have access;
"public utility" has the same meaning assigned to it in the Public
Utilities Regulatory Commission Act, 1997 (Act 538).
"public electronic communications network" means electronic
communications network used to provide a public electronic
communications service;
"public electronic communications service" include electronic
communications service, a public telephone service, offered
to members of the general public which permits one user to
communicate with another user regardless of the technology
used to provide the service, but does not include a service
that modifies a communication, restructures, adds or
supplies, or permits user interaction with information unless
the service is offering a public telephone service;
"public telephone service" means the commercial provision to
the public of the direct transport and switching of voice
telephony in real time from and to network termination
points;
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