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“licensee” means a person that holds a valid licence duly granted by the
Authority;
“member” means a member of the Board appointed under section 5;
“Minister” or Ministry” means, unless otherwise specified, the Minister or
Ministry responsible for telecommunication services;
“network” means an integrated system of facilities which comprise the
facilities used to provide one or more telecommunication services;
“operator” means a person who operates telecommunication facilities;
“person” means any individual, partnership, association, joint venture, trust,
company or corporation;
“private line service” means the offering of telecommunication services in
which certain telecommunication facilities or an agreed upon amount of
capacity between or among fixed points is reserved for the exclusive use of a
particular customer for an agreed upon period of time, for which the customer
compensates the provider based on the total amount of capacity leased rather
than the customer’ s actual usage of that capacity and which may be offered as
a private telecommunication service or as a public telecommunication service;
“private telecommunication service” means telecommunication services not
interconnected with the public switched network and subject to prohibitions
against resale, provided exclusively for transmission and reception by one
person or its employees or among persons under common ownership or
control or their employees;
“public telecommunication network” means a fully interconnected and
integrated system of telecommunication consisting of various means of
transmission and switching, utilised to provide telecommunication services to
the general public;
“public telecommunication services” means telecommunication services
provided to the general public or to a class of persons so as to be generally
available;
“public telecommunication services provider” means a licensed provider of
telecommunication services having the authority and responsibilities assigned
by this Act;
“radio frequencies” Or “radio frequency spectrum” means frequencies or
spectrum of naturally propagated electromagnetic waves that are utilised for
transmission and reception of telecommunication signals;
“resale” means the offering to users or customers for profit of
telecommunication services obtained from another telecommunication service
provider;
“subscriber” means a person or entity who is provided a telecommunications
service by a licensee, and who is responsible for