4 No. 22889 Act No. 64,2001 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30 NOVEMBER 2001 TELECOMMUNICATI’ONSAMENDMENT ACT, 2001 and operated by the licensee for the purposes of providing the local access telecommunication service as contemplated in section 39; ‘local exchange’ means a facility in the public switchedtelecommunication network to which usel: lines are connectedwithin a local exchange; ‘local exchange area’means a geographically defined and limited area, as defined by the exchange area code allolzated by the Authority for that area, to which all exchange lines are connected and which are served by the same local exchange;”i (h) by the substitution for the definition of “Minister” of the following definition: ‘‘ ‘Minister’ means the Minister [for Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting] of Communications;”; (i) by the insertion after the definition of “Minist(-r” of the following definitions: “ ‘mobile cellular telecommunication network’ means a telecommunication network designed to use limited radio frequency spectrum between cellular terminal e.quipmentand network transceiversto provide a mobile service across a cellular network according to technical standards that are applicable to the assigned frequencies by(a) allocating a limited number of frequencies within each of a number of defined geographical areas or cellls; (b) allowing the re-use of thesamefrequenciesin different nonadjacent cells; and (c) enabling users to maintain connectionswhilemoving through different geographical areas by making use of call handover between adjacent cells; ‘mobile cellular telecommunication service’ meansa telecommunication service provided by a 1:icensed mobile cellular telecommunication operator as referred to in section 37; ‘mobile cellular operators’ means Voda.com (Pty.) Ltd., Mobile Telephone Networks (Pty.) Ltd.. and Cell C (Pty.) Ltd.; ‘multimedia service’ means a telecommunication service that integrates and synchronises various forms of media to communicate information or content in an interactive format, including servicessuch as(a) internet through television; (b) pay-per-view; (c) video on demand; (d) electronic transactions (including e-commerce); ( e ) text; if) data; (g) graphics; (h) animation; (i) audio; ( j ) visual content, but shall not include mobile cellular telecommunication services and public switched telecommunication serv:ices; ‘national long distancetelecommunication service’ means a telecommunication service comprising the conve:yance of signals between the network of anylicensee providing lolcal access telecommunication services in an area, and the network of the same or of another licensee providing such service in another area, and includes the installation, bringing into service, maintenance and repair of the telecommunication network that is provided, maintained and operated by the licensee for the purposes of providingthe national long distance telecommunication service as contemplated in section 38; ‘number portability’ means a capability whereby a subscriber to a telecommunication servicl:. who so re’quests can retain his orher telephone number when changing service fromone public switched telecommunication service licensee to another public switchedtelecommunication service licensee or one mobile cellular telecommunication service licensee to another mobile cellular telecommunication service licensee;”; 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60