(ad) “Authority” means the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority established under section
3;]
(b) "basic telephone services" means the provision of any telecommunication service which
consists of__
(i) two‑way live voice telephone service, in digital form or otherwise, over any public
fixed switched network or between base stations or switches or modes of any public
mobile switched network;
(ii) real‑time transmission or reception of facsimile images over a public fixed switched
network;
(iii) international telephony service; and
(iv) the lease of circuits for the provision of the services specified in sub‑clauses (i), (ii)
and (iii);
(c) "Board" means Frequency Allocation Board established under section 42;
(d) "Company" means the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited established and
incorporated in accordance with section 34;
(e) "Corporation" means the Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation established under the
Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Act, 1991 (XVIII of 1991);
(f) "effective date" for the Authority, Board, Company, National Telecommunication
Corporation, or the Trust means the date on which property, right and liabilities of the
Corporation are vested under section 35 in the Authority or, as the case may be, Board,
Company, National Telecommunication Corporation or the Trust;
1[(fa) “Federal Government” means the Federal Government in the Ministry of information
Technology and Telecommunication Division, unless for any specific purpose specified
otherwise by notification in the official Gazette notification or amendment in the Rules or
Business, 1973;]
1 Subs & ins by Act II of 2006,s.2
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