2005, No.20 Telecommunications Act 2005 91 “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;

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