The Telecommunications Law The Telecommunications Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 31, 2013) The 4th Waxing Day of Thadingyut, 1375 M.E. (8th October, 2013) The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this Law. Chapter I Title, Application and Definition 1. This Law shall be called the Telecommunications Law. 2. The provisions in this Law shall apply to: (a) any person, department and organization within the territory which includes the land, water and airspace of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. (b) Myanmar citizens who are anywhere beyond the limits of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. 3. The following expressions contained in this Law shall have the meanings given hereunder: (a) Telecommunications means transmission or reception of any information in its original or modified form by using wire, fiber optic cable or any other conducting cable or by using any means of radio wave, optical or any other forms of electromagnetic transmission; (b) Information means data, text, image, sound, code, sign, signal, any collection of data and combination of more than one thereof and similar matters; (c) Wireless Communications means transmission or reception of any information by means of radio wave, optical, electromagnetic or transmission or reception by any other means without using of wires, fiber optical cables or any other conducting cable between the transmitter and the receiver; (d) Telecommunications Network means a network of telecommunications facilities, telecommunications equipment, computers, devices similar to computer, peripherals used in conjunction with them by means of wire or wireless communication technology; (e) Customer Side of the Network Boundary means the first connected telecommunications equipment socket at a customer premises or the first point at which a telecommunications network receives information from any customer or the first point at which network facilities sends information to a customer; (f) Telecommunications Service means the provision of one or more than one of the following services: Network Facilities Service, Network Service and Application Service. Page 1 of 14