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Communications
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“postal article” means any article in the course of transmission
by post, including any letter, postcard, newspaper, book,
document, pamphlet, pattern, sample packet, small packet, parcel
package, or any other article tendered for dispatch, or specified as
a postal article by the Universal Postal Union or in a postal
licence;
“postal services licensee” means any entity licensed to provide
postal services;
“postal tariff” means any charges raised by the postal services
licensee for the provision of postal services;
“public content service” means any content service provided
by the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, or any other public
state-owned enterprise holding a broadcasting service licence to
this purpose;
“public postal service” means any postal service provided by
the Malawi Posts Corporation, or other state-owned enterprise
holding a postal services licence;
“scarce resources” means finite resources required in the
operation of electronic communication, including radio spectrum,
numbers and rights of ways;
“subscriber” means a person having a contract with an
authorized provider of a communications service in order to
obtain any communications services;
“subscription content service” means a content service
provided under a subscription contract;
“television content service” means a content service consisting
of the transmission of visual images or other visible signals, with
or without accompanying sounds, where the visual images are
such that their sequences are seen as moving pictures;
“terminal equipment” means any electronic communications
equipment connected at the terminal end of a public electronic
communications network for the purpose of sending and
receiving network services to and from end users;
“type approval” is a procedure where the Authority certifies the
acceptability of an electronic equipment or product based on
conformity of the equipment or the product to minimum
regulatory technical and safety requirement before the equipment
or the product is used;
“universal access” means access to publicly available
communications services;