16 No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
“interconnection” means the physical or logical linking of one
public electronic communications network to another for the
purpose of allowing the persons using one of them to be
able to
(a) communicate with users of the other network;
or
(b) make use of services provided by means of
the other one;
“letters” means any form of written communications in the nature of
current and personal correspondence and includes
postcards;
“licence” means a licence issued under the provisions of this Act;
“local shareholder” means shareholders of an applicant or licensee
who is Tanzanian national where it is an individual or
company registered in Tanzania with shares as required
under section 26 of this Act;
“mail bag” means any bag, container, envelope or covering in which
postal articles are conveyed;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for communications
except in relation to content and broadcasting services;
“mobile telephone” means a mobile apparatus or mobile terminal
equipment which is capable of connection to a cellular
telecommunication system and which is used by a customer
to transmit or receive indirect communications over such
telecommunications system;
“multiplex” is a digital transmission channel which combines
programme material and other data in a digital form for
transmission via a frequency channel;
“multiplex operator” means that entity that compiles, operates
content offering on a digital multiplex that decides on the
conditional access and Subscriber Management System
(SMS) to be used and provides signal transmission to the
end user;