2005, No.20
Telecommunications Act 2005
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“Government” means the Government of the Independent
State of Samoa;
“Individual licence” means a licence issued pursuant to
sections 13 and 15 to an individual person upon the
application of that person;
“Interconnection” means the physical and logical linking of
telecommunications networks used by the same or a
different service provider in order to allow the users of
one service provider to communicate with users of the
same or another service provider, or to access the
facilities and/or services of another service provider, and
includes „access‟, meaning the making available of
telecommunications facilities or services by one service
provider to another for the purpose of providing
telecommunications services;
“Licence” means an individual licence or a class licence
issued pursuant to this Act, but does not include a radio
spectrum licence or a licence issued prior to the coming
into force of this Act;
“Licensee” means a person who holds a licence under this
Act;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for
Communications and Information Technology;
“Ministry” means the Ministry responsible for
Communications and Information Technology;
“Office of the Regulator” means the entity established by
section 9;
“Order” means a written order made by the Regulator
pursuant to this Act, a regulation or rule;
“Public voice telephony services” means the commercial
provision to the public of the direct transport and
switching of voice telephony in real time from and to
network termination points;
“Prior licence” means an authorization for the operation of a
telecommunications network or provision of a
telecommunications service issued prior to the coming
into force of this Act;
“Radio spectrum licence” means a licence issued pursuant
to section 22;