g) Defend user’s interests, ensuring their right of access without
discrimination, to telecommunication services, as well as respect for their
constitutional rights, especially the right to honor, privacy and
confidentiality in telecommunications.
4. The exploitation of public telecommunication services necessitates prior
authorization.
5. User billing must be based on cost estimates and be submitted to the
competitive pressure of the market.
Article 2º
Definition
1. For the effects of this law, the terms listed below have the following
definitions:
a) Telecommunications is the technological process that entails the
emission, transmission and reception of signals, representing symbols,
text, images, sound or information of any nature, through wires, radio
electric media, optic wires or other electromagnetic systems;
b) Public telecommunications – telecommunications for the public in
general;
c) Telecommunications of public use – public telecommunication in which
the information is sent to one or more predetermined addressees,
through routing, it may not be bidirectional;
d) Private telecommunications – telecommunications for one’s own use or
for a restricted number of users.
e) Broadcast telecommunications – public telecommunications in which the
communication happens in a single sense, simultaneously to several
reception points and with no specific routing.
f) National telecommunications infrastructure – the array of means
available for fixed or wireless telecommunications, in narrow or
broadband, global or regional, used as support for the provision of
telecommunication services.
g) National telecommunications system – the structure that composes the
National Telecommunications Infrastructure, the services it offers, the
necessary human resources, harmonized in keeping with the legislation
in effect.