2 No. 22889 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Act No. 64,2001 30 NOVEMBER 2001 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMENDMENT ACT. 200 1 GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: 1 [ Words in bold type in square brackets indicate existing enactments. Words underlined with a solid lineindicate existing enactments. omissions from insertions in (English text signed by the President.) (Assented to 29 November 2001.) ACT To amend the Telecommunications Act, 1996 (Act No. 103 of 1996), so as to insert newdefinitions andsubstituteotherdefinitions;tomakeprovisionforradio frequency access in the 1800 MHz frequency band; to make provision for new kinds of licences; to make further provision for applications for licences and the consideration thereof; to provide anew for the taking of decisions on applications for licences; to provide for public switched telecommunication services and public switched telecommunication networks; to further regulate mobile cellular telecommunication services; to provide for the commencement or duration of certain licences; to further regulate private telecommunication networks; to make further provision for the interconnection of telecommunication systems; to further provide fortheavailability of telecommunicationfacilities;toprovideforemergency centres;tomakefurtherprovisionforcertainfunctions of theIndependent CommunicationsAuthority of SouthAfrica;and to makeprovisionforthe establishment of a telecommunications museum; to provide for the repeal of a particularlawandtheamendment of another;andtoprovideformatters connected therewith. B E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Re.public of South Africa, as fo11ows:- Amendment of section 1 of Act 103 of 1996, as amendedby section 23 of Act 13 of 2000 1. Section 1 of the Telecommunications Act, 1996 (hereinafterreferred to as “the 5 principal Act”), is hereby amended(a) by the insertion after thedefinition of “broadcasting signal distribution”of the following definitions: ‘carrier of carriers’ means a te1ecommun:ication service (including any signal conveyed by means of thetelecommunication system of that 10 service) whichoriginates on the telecommunication system of a public switched telecommunication service licensee or mobile cellular telecommunication service licensee or an under--serviced area licensee in the Republic and terminates in a telecommunication system in another 15 country or vice versa; or originates and terminates in a telecommunication system ofan operator licensed in anothercountry to provide international services, but is conveyed via a teleclommunication system in the 20 Republic on a wholesale basis, “