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national dailies, determine the standards of various telecommunication services, and in
providing those services, the operators shall be bound to follow those standards.
(2)
Where a standard is determined under sub-section (1), the Commission
shall, from time to time, take steps for publicity of the standard so that the people get
opportunity to know about it.
CHAPTRE VIII
Radio communication and spectrum management
55.
Necessity for licence for radio apparatus, authority, procedure etc.- (1) No
person shall, without a licence, establish, operate or use a radio apparatus for the
purpose of radio communication in the land or territorial waters of Bangladesh or in the
space above them, nor shall he use any radio frequency other than the frequency
allocated by the Commission.
(2)
The Commission shall have the exclusive authority to issue licence and to
allocate the radio frequency under sub-section (1).
(3)
The manner of issuance of licence, allocation of frequency, and their
renewal, suspension and cancellation, the qualifications and disqualifications of a
licensee, the licence-fees and other related matters shall be determined by regulations,
and until regulations are made, general or special resolutions of the Commissions shall
be applicable to those matters.
(4)
A licence issued or a frequency allocated under this section or the right to
use such licence or frequency shall not be transferable, and if any such transfer takes
place it shall be void.
(5)
Clause (i) of section 37(3) shall be applicable to such licence.
(6)
No licence under sub-section (1) shall be required in the following cases:(a)
installation, operation or use of a radio apparatus by the Police,
Bangladesh Rifles, Coast Guard, any of the defence forces or any
other security force to meet its own requirement;
(b)
installation, operation or use of a radio apparatus by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs or an intelligence agency of the Government to
meet its own requirement;
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