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Telecommunications Act 2005
2005, No.20
“Reference interconnection offer” has the meaning assigned
to it in section 37;
“Regulation” means a regulation made pursuant to the
Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology Act 2005;
“Regulator” means the person appointed pursuant to section
6 to head the Office of the Regulator;
“Rule” means a rule made by the Regulator pursuant to this
Act;
“Samoa” means the Independent State of Samoa;
“Service provider” means a person that provides a
telecommunications service to the public or that owns or
operates a telecommunications network used to provide
telecommunications services to the public;
“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 facility” means any facility, apparatus
or other thing that is used or is capable of being used for
telecommunications or for any operation directly
connected with telecommunications;
“Telecommunications network” means any wire, radio,
optical or other electromagnetic system for routing,
switching or transmitting telecommunications services
between network termination points;
“Telecommunications service” means any form of
transmission of signs, signals, text, images or other
intelligence by means of a telecommunications network,
but does not include a broadcasting service;
“Terms of Service” means the general terms and conditions
upon which a service provider shall provide
telecommunications services to customers and which are
set out in a document prepared in accordance with Part
IX of this Act. Once approved by the Regulator, the
Terms of Service shall, together with this Act, the
regulations, rules, orders and approved tariffs, be
binding upon a dominant service provider and its users;
and