- 10 ­ (a) any broadcasting service provided by MBC; or (b) any broadcasting service provided under a licence which stipulates— (i) national or local transmission of the broadcasting service; (ii) the provision of regular news bulletins; and (iii) access to the service for public information announcements or programmes; "public telecommunication network" means a telecommunication network used, in whole or in part, for the provision of telecommunication service to the public; "radiocommunication" means any telecommunication by means of radio frequencies; "radiocommunication service" means any service for telecommunication by means of radio frequencies; "radio frequencies" means electromagnetic waves of frequencies arbitrarily lower than 3000 GHz propagated in space without artificial guide; "radio station" means any equipment, facility or system used of intended to be used for radiocommunication; "subscriber" means any person who has entered into a contract with an authorized provider of a telecommunication service which includes or requires the provision or maintenance of a connexion to a telecommunication network; "telecommunication" means the emission, transmission or reception, through the agency of electricity or electromagnetism, of any sounds, signs, signals, writing, images, intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electric or electromagnetic systems whether or not such signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence have been subjected to rearrangement, computation or other processes by any means in the course of their transmission, emission or reception; "telecommunication licence" means any license to operate a telecommunication network or provide a telecommunication service; "telecommunication network" means transmission systems and, where applicable, switching equipment arid other resources which permit the conveyance of signals between defined termination points by wire, by radio, by optical or other electric or electromagnetic means; "telecommunication operator" means the operator of a telecommunication network designated by the Authority under section 24; "telecommunication service" means a service consisting wholly or partly in the transmission and routing of signals on a telecommunication network, with the exception of radio and television broadcasting; "terminal equipment" means any equipment to be connected to a telecommunication network which is operated by a person duly licensed to provide a public telecommunication service; "transfer date" means the date on which— (a) the telecommunications assets and undertakings of Malawi Posts and