content applications service, equipment, or facility identifier, or other means of access that can be used, alone or in conjunction with another access device, for the purposes of any communications; “access forum” means a forum designated under section 152; “access list” means the list of facilities or services established under Chapter 3 of Part VI ; “agreement” means an agreement, whether formal or informal, oral or written, express or implied; “apparatus assignment” means an assignment issued under section 164; “Appeal Tribunal” means the Appeal Tribunal established under Part II ; “applications service” means a service provided by means of, but not solely by means of, one or more network services; “applications service provider” means a person who provides an applications service; “appointed date” means the date on which this Act comes into operation; “arrangement” means an arrangement, whether formal or informal, oral or written, express or implied; “assignment” means the assignment by the Commission of rights to use the spectrum, numbers or electronic addresses and may include conditions to which the exercise of those rights shall be subject; “authorized interception” means interception by the licensee of any network facilities, network service or applications service permitted under section 265; “authorized officer” means any public officer or officer appointed by the Commission and authorized in writing by the Minister for the purposes of this Act; “certifying agency” means a certifying agency registered under section 186; “class assignment” means an assignment issued under section 169; “class licence” means a licence for any or all persons to conduct a specified activity and may include conditions to which the conduct of that activity shall be subject; “communications” means any communication, whether between persons and persons, things and things, or persons and things, in the form of sound, data, text, visual images, signals or any other form or any combination of those forms; “communications market” means an economic market for a network service, or an applications service, or for goods or services used in conjunction with a network service or an applications service, or for access to facilities used in conjunction with either a network service or an applications service; “Commission” means the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission established under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998 [Act 589]; “conduit” means— (a) any conduit which, whether or not it is itself an electric line, is maintained by an electricity company for the purpose of enclosing, surrounding or supporting such line, including, where such conduit is connected to any box, chamber or other structure (including a building) maintained by an electricity supply company for purposes connected with the conveyance, transmission or distribution of electricity, that box, chamber or structure; (b) a water main or any other conduit maintained by a water authority for the purpose of conveying water from one place to another;