Act 1
Uganda Communications Act
2013
“telecommunications apparatus” or “telecommunication station”
means any apparatus or equipment used or intended to be
used in connection with the transmission of
communications by means of electricity from one place to
another place either along a wire joining those two places
or partly by wire from each of those two places and partly
by radio communication;
“telecommunications line” means any wire, cable, equipment,
tower, mast, antenna, tunnel, hole, pit trench, pole or other
structure or thing used or intended to be used in connection
with a telecommunications system;
“telecommunications service” means a service consisting of the
conveyance or reception of any sounds, signs, signals, writing
or images by wire, optical or other electronically guided
media systems whether or not the signs, signals, writing,
images, sounds or intelligence have been subjected to
rearrangement, computation or other process by any means in
the course of their transmission, emission or reception;
“telecommunications system” means a system for the conveyance
through the agency of electric, magnetic, electromagnetic,
electrochemical, electromechanical or light energy of—
(a) speech, music, data and other sounds;
(b) visual images;
(c) signals serving for the importance, whether as
between persons and things, of any matter otherwise
than in the form of sounds, visual images; or
(d) signals serving for the actuation or control of
machinery or apparatus; and
including telecommunications apparatus situated in the
Republic of Uganda;
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