Electronic and Postal Communication (Licensing)
G.N. No. 430 (contd)
Interpretation
Cap.306
Cap. 172
3. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires“Act” means the Electronic and Postal Communications Act;
“active SIM card” means a SIM card that has been enabled to
initiate traffic;
“active subscriber” means
“Authority” means the Tanzania Communications Regulatory
Authority
established under the Tanzania
Communications Regulatory Authority Act;
“application services” means a service provided by means of
one or more network services but does not include such
service provided solely on the customer side of the
network boundary;
“application services licence” means an electronic
communications licence entitling the holder to provide
one or more application services;
“application services licensee” means a holder of an application
service licence;
“closed user group” means a type of service that allows a person
to provide communication services for private use;
“consumer” means any person who uses electronic
communications or postal product or services;
“customer” means any person who obtains or seeks to obtain
services of any kind from a person undertaking
activities pursuant to the Act and includes subscribers;
“contract of services” means an agreement entered into between
the licensee and the customer for the provision of the
licensed services to the customer;
“dealer” means a person who carries out trade, business or
industry in which electronic communications apparatus
assembled, manufactured, imported, bought, sold, hired
or exchanged;
“content” means information in the form of speech or other
sound, data, text or images whether still or moving,
except where transmitted in private communications;
“content services” means services offered for speech or other
sound, data, text or images whether still or moving,
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