CHAPTER III
LICENSING
20. Licensing of telecommunication services.__ (1) No person shall establish, maintain or
operate any telecommunication system or provide any telecommunication service unless he has
obtained a licence under this Act:
Provided that no licence shall be required for__
(a) provision of terrestrial wireless radio broadcasting and Television broadcasting within
Pakistan;
(b) the establishment, maintenance or operation of a telecommunication system or the
provision of any telecommunication service which does not include or use any wireless
telegraphy apparatus and is not connected to any other telecommunication system and
where all the telecommunication equipment comprised in the former system is established
or provided by a person for his own use and under his own control and is situated either in
a single set of premises in single occupation within a single unbroken boundary or in a
vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft ;
(c) the operation by an individual of a telecommunication system which is wholly under his
control and all information conveyed by it is solely for his own domestic purposes;
(d) the operation of a telecommunication system or provision of a telecommunication service
by the police, national security or armed forces; or
(e) the connection by any person of terminal equipment to a telecommunication system other
than a public switched network or for its connection to a public switched network if such
equipment is approved for connection to that network; or
(f) national and international telecommunication systems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Intelligence Bureau and Inter‑Services Intelligence Directorate of the Government of
Pakistan.
(2) No licensee shall establish, maintain or operate any telecommunication system or provide any
telecommunication service which is not authorized tender the licence.
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