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“telegraph office” means any place used for the handling of telegrams;
“telegraph service” means a telecommunication service by means of which a person using
the service may communicate by means of a telegram with another person;
“telephone service” means a telecommunication service by means of which a person using
the service may speak to another person using the service;
“telex service” means a telecommunication service by means of which a person using the
service may communicate by means of printed letters and figures through the medium of
a teleprinter with another person using the service;
“transmission”, in relation to⎯
(a) a telegram, includes the reception as well as the sending thereof;
(b) a postal article, includes the depositing by the sender of the article in a post box;
“under-serviced area” bears the meaning assigned to that term by section seventy-two.
(2) For the purposes of this Act⎯
(a) a postal article shall be deemed to be in course of transmission by post from the time of
its delivery to a post office and until it is delivered to the person to whom it is addressed
or returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under this Act;
(b) the placing of an article in any post box or the delivery of an article to an employee of a
postal licensee in the course of his duties shall be deemed to be delivery to a post office;
(c) the delivery of a postal article in terms of this Act shall be deemed to be delivery to the
person to whom the postal article is addressed;
(d) in the case of a building which consists of a number of self-contained residences
commonly known as flats, each such flat shall be regarded as a single building.
(3) Any reference in this Act to⎯
(a) the provision, reception or transmission of a cellular telecommunication or
telecommunication service includes the provision or reception within or transmission to
Zimbabwe of any such service transmitted by satellite;
(b) the operation in Zimbabwe of a cellular telecommunication or telecommunication
system includes the operation in Zimbabwe of cellular telecommunication or
telecommunication apparatus that is connected to a cellular telecommunication or
telecommunication system operated outside Zimbabwe.
PART II
ESTABLISHMENT, FUNCTIONS AND POWERS
OF POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
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Establishment of Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory
Authority of Zimbabwe
There is hereby established an authority, to be known as the Postal and Telecommunications
Regulatory Authority, which shall be a body corporate capable of suing and being sued in its