(o) "public fixed switched network" means any public switched network other than a public
mobile switched network;
(p) "public mobile switched network" means a public switched network using wireless
1[intelligence] where the terminal equipment used for the emission or reception of
intelligence may be connected to the network 1[could be] used while in motion;
(q) "regulations" means the regulations made under this Act;
1[(qa) “R&D Funds” means the Research and Development Fund established under sub
section (1) of section 33C;
(qb) “Right of Way” means a right belonging to any person or public authority to pass over
land or property or other person to provide telecom license services;
(qc) “scarce resources” means radio frequency spectrum, right or way and numbering;]
(r) "telecommunication equipment" means switches, equipment, wires, cables, apparatus,
poles, structures, ducts, manholes and other tangible property, software and data, other
than terminal equipment, comprising any telecommunication system or used in
connection with any telecommunication service;
(s) "terminal equipment" means any apparatus directly or indirectly connected to any network
termination point and used for sending, processing or receiving intelligence;
(t) "telecommunication employees" means the employees of the Corporation who are
transferred to the employment of the Company under this Act, other than those to whom
subsection (3) of section 36 applies, and all persons, who, on the effective date for the
Company were employees of the Corporation, the former Telegraph and Telephone
Department of the Federal Government and are receiving or are entitled to receive
pensionary benefits from the Corporation;
(u) “telecommunication system” means any electrical, electromagnetic, electronic, optical or
optioelectronic system for the emission, conveyance, switching or reception of any
intelligence within, or into, or from, Pakistan, whether or not that intelligence is subjected
to rearrangement, computation or any other process in the course of operation of the
system, and includes a cable transmission system, a cable television transmission system
and terminal equipment;
1 Ins and subs by Act II of 06, s. 2.
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