“electromagnetic system” means a system by
which messages or sound or light or visual images
may be transmitted by
(a) wire activated by electricity;
(b) radio waves or any other electromagnetic
energy;
(c) optical energy; or
(d) a combination of any two or more of those
systems;
“encrypted” means treated electronically or other
wise so as to prevent intelligible reception in the
absence of the means of decryption;
"end-user" means a user not providing public
communications networks or publicly available
information and communications services;
“force majeure” includes
(a) an act of God, riot or civil commotion;
(b) a strike, lock-out
disturbance;
or
other
industrial
(c) a war, blockade or an insurrection;
(d) an earthquake, hurricane, a flood, a fire or an
explosion;
(e) an outbreak of pestilence or epidemic;
(f) Government rationing of electricity or other
wartime or emergency control imposed by
Government; and
(g) an embargo or trade restriction;
“frequency” means the number of complete cycles
per second of a wave of electromagnetic energy;
“Fund” means the Universal Service Fund that may
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