No. 4378 Act No. 8, 2009 Government Gazette 16 November 2009 7 COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2009 “domestic telecommunications service” means a telecommunications service that both originate and terminate within Namibia; “dominant” means determined to be dominant as contemplated in section 78; “electronic communications” means any emission, transmission or reception of sound, pictures, text or any other information by wire, radio waves, optical media, electromagnetic systems or any other means of a like nature; “fixed line telephone service” means the commercial provision to the public of a service consisting of the transport and switching of speech in real time over its network, enabling any user to use equipment connected to termination points of that network so as to communicate with another termination point or any termination point on a network interconnected with the network of the carrier concerned; “individual licence” means a telecommunications licence referred to in section 38(1)(a) or (b); “international telecommunications service” means any telecommunications service provided between Namibia and foreign countries; “interconnection” means the linking of two telecommunications so that users of either network may communicate with users of, or utilise services provided by means of, the other network or any other telecommunication network connected to the other network; “member” means a member of the Board; “Minister” means the Minister responsible for Communications; “number portability” means the ability of users of telecommunications services to retain, at the same location, existing telecommunications numbers without impairment of quality, reliability or convenience when switching from one carrier to another; “postal services” means the business of receiving, collecting, dispatching, conveying and delivering postal articles and of transmitting and delivering telegrams and of performing all incidental services; “private line service” means a telecommunications service in which certain telecommunications facilities or an agreed upon amount of capacity between or among fixed points is reserved for the exclusive use of a particular customer for an agreed upon period of time, for which the customer compensates the provider based on the total amount of capacity leased rather than actual usage by the customer; “public pay-telephone” means a telephone terminal available for the use of the public and for the use of which the methods of payment are coins, credit or debit cards or prepayment cards or other means of direct payment at the fees charged by the provider of such public telephone terminal; “radio waves” means electromagnetic waves which are propagated in space without artificial guide and having frequencies of lower than 3 000 Ghz, “radio frequency” and “radio frequency spectrum” is construed accordingly; “radio apparatus” means a telecommunications device which is capable of transmitting or receiving any signal by radio waves, other than –