COMMUNICATIONS: Some useful terminology
In accordance with the Communications Act 2000, here are some useful explanations for some terminologies being referred to here with relate to Communications services and regulation
"advertising content" means content which is used to promote a product or service or the interests of a person whether or not for payment;
"applications service" means a service provided by means of, but not solely by means of, one or more network services but does not include such a service provided solely on the customer side of the network boundary;
"class licence" means a licence promulgated by the Minister authorising a class of persons to engage in specific activities, and establishing obligations with respect to such activities with which such persons must comply but shall not be issued to a person;
"communications" means any communication, whether between persons and persons, things and things or persons and things, in the form of sound,data, text, visual images, signals or any other form or any combination of those forms;
"consumer standards" mean consumer standards approved in accordance with section 40 of the Communications Act 2000 "content" means text, sound, still picture, moving picture or other audiovisual representation, tactile representation or any combination of the preceding which is capable of being created, manipulated, stored retrieved or communicated electronically;
"content applications service" means any applications service which supplies content;
"customer equipment" means equipment, including cabling, hardware and software, employed on the customer side of the network boundary;
"individual licence" means a licence granted by the Minister to a person or a company in a accordance with Part V, Division 1 of this Act, authorising rights and obligations with respect to activities that are deferred in that licence;
"Internet access service" means an applications service whereby a person is able to access Internet services and applications in conjunction with either a dial-up connection or a direct connection;
"network boundary" means, unless otherwise declared by the Minister: -
(a) the first equipment socket in a private residence;
(b) the main distribution frame in a building; or
(c) the point at which a network facility receives communications from or sends communications to a consumer;
"network facilities" means any element or combination of elements of physical infrastructure used principally for, or in connection with, the provision of network services, but does not include customer equipment;
"network service" means a service for the carrying of communications by means of guided and unguided electromagnetic radiation but does not include services provided solely on the customer side of network boundary;
"numbering and electronic addressing plan" means a numbering and electronic addressing plan approved by the Minister in accordance with section 54;
"public fund" means the public revenues of the Kingdom and any accumulated reserves of those revenues;
"resale" means the sale by a person of an applications service which has been firstly acquired from an applications service provider, to another person;
"spectrum" means the continuous range of electromagnetic wave frequencies up to and including a frequency of 420 terahertz;
"spectrum plan" means a spectrum plan approved by the Minister, pursuant to section 64;
"subscription content" means content which is made available to a consumer only upon payment of a subscription fee;
"technical standards" mean technical standards approved by the Minister, in accordance with section 57
For more information, please contact the Communications Department on (676) 28 -170 or email Mr. Fe'ao Vakata, on
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