Official
The Telecommunications Law
(The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 31, 2013)
The 4th Waxing Day of Thadingyut, 1375 M.E.
(8th October, 2013)
The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this Law.
Chapter I
Title, Application and Definition
1.
This Law shall be called the Telecommunications Law.
2.
The provisions in this Law shall apply to:
(a)
any person, department and organization within the territory which
includes the land, water and airspace of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar.
(b)
Myanmar citizens, who are anywhere beyond the limits of the Republic
of the Union of Myanmar.
3.
The following expressions contained in this Law shall have the meanings
given hereunder:
(a)
Telecommunications means transmission or reception of any
information in its original or modified form by using wire, fiber optic
cable or any other conducting cable or by using any means of radio
wave, optical or any other forms of electromagnetic transmission.
(b)
Information means data, text, image, sound, code, sign, signal, any
collection of data and combination of more than one thereof and
similar matters.
(c)
Wireless Communications means transmission or reception of any
information by means of radio wave, optical, electromagnetic or
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