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“Authority” means the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe
established by section three;2
“authorised dealer” means a person authorised in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of
section seventy to carry on the business of dealing in radio transmitting stations or radio
apparatus necessary for the proper working of such stations;
“authorised repairer” means a person authorised in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (1)
of section seventy to carry on the business of repairing radio transmitting stations;
“Board” means the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe
Board referred to in section five;3
“Broadcasting Corporation” means the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation referred to in
section 3 of the Broadcasting Act [Chapter 12:01];
“broadcasting service” means a service comprising programmes for reception by members of
the general public and transmitted by a broadcasting or telecommunication system;
“broadcasting station” means a radio transmitting station used for the purposes of carrying
on a broadcasting service;
“cellular telecommunication licence” means a licence that authorises the licensee to provide a
cellular telecommunication service or operate a cellular telecommunication system;
“cellular telecommunication service” means a service transmitted by means of a cellular
telecommunication system;
“cellular telecommunication system” means a radiocommunication service designed to use a
limited radio frequency spectrum between cellular handsets or other terminal equipment
and network transceivers for the provision of mobile, bearer and supplementary services
across the cellular network, by allocating a limited number of frequencies within each of
a number of defined geographical areas or cells, allowing the re-use of the same
frequencies, and enabling users to maintain connections whilst moving through different
geographical areas by making use of call handover between adjacent cells;
“commercial courier service” means a service for the conveyance for reward of postal articles in
respect of which any undertaking is given to deliver the article to a specified destination
within a specified time;
“communication” means writing, signs, signals, pictures, impulses, sounds and data of any
description whatsoever transmitted, tendered for transmission or received by means of a
radiocommunication service or a telecommunication system;
“community centre” bears the meaning assigned to that term by section seventy-two;
“community service telephone” bears the meaning assigned to that term by section ninetyfour;
“Constitution of the Universal Postal Union” means the Constitution of the Universal Postal
Union signed at Vienna on the 10th July, 1964, and the Regulations annexed thereto, or
2
Definition substituted by s. 18 of Act 14/2002.
3
Definition substituted by s. 18 of Act 14/2002.