17 “Solomon Telekom” means Solomon Telekom Company Limited, a company formed under Companies Act (Cap. 175); “Solomon Telekom’s new licence” means the licence to be issued to Solomon Telekom pursuant to section 127 substantially in the Form set out in Schedule 1; “Solomon Telekom’s prior licence” means the Telecommunications Licence issued by the Telecommunications Authority of Solomon Islands to Solomon Telekom Company Limited, dated 17 November 2003; “telecommunications” means the conveyance from one device to another of any message by means of any wire, radio, optical, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic or similar system; , “Telecommunications Commission” means the entity established as such by section 6; “Telecommunications Commission Special Fund” means the special fund established pursuant to section 17(1)(a); “telecommunications equipment” means equipment intended to be connected directly or indirectly to a telecommunications network in order to send, transmit or receive telecommunications services; “telecommunications market” means a market in Solomon Islands for any telecommunications service or access including any other telecommunications service or access that as a matter of fact and commercial common sense is substitutable for it; “telecommunications network” means a system or series of systems capable of permitting telecommunications; “telecommunications service” means any service normally provided for consideration whether on a retail or wholesale basis which consists wholly or mainly in carrying out telecommunications, but does not include television broadcasting; “television broadcasting” means the transmission by a television broadcast station of broadcast matter to a