No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
17
“network facilities” means any element, or combination of elements,
of physical infrastructure used principally for, or in
connection with, the provision of one or more network
services or multiplex operations, but not including customer
equipment;
“Network Service” means a service for the carrying of information
in the form of speech or other sound, data, text or images,
by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy but
does not include services provided solely on the customer
side of the network boundary;
“Network Service Licence” means an electronic communications
licence entitling the holder to provide one or more network
services;
“network service licensee” means a holder of a network service
licence;
“parcel” means a postal article which is posted at a post office as a
parcel or is received at a post office by parcel post;
“physical co-location” means a type of co-location where the party
controlling the building, tower or other structure in or on
which another party’s switches, antennas or other electronic
communications equipment are accommodated, also allows
the other party to operate those switches, antennas or other
electronic communications equipment;
“post” means a system for the collection, dispatch, conveyance,
handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a
public postal licensee;
“postcode” or ‘’postal code’’ means a series of letters or digits
appended to a postal address for the purpose of making the
processing and delivery of mail precise, easier and faster;
“post office’ means any building, house, room, vehicle or place
where postal articles are received, delivered, sorted, made
up or dispatched;
“postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of
postal articles;
“postage stamp” means any label or stamp for denoting any postage
or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and
including any adhesive postage stamp or stamp printed,