Act 1 Uganda Communications Act 2013 “telecommunications apparatus” or “telecommunication station” means any apparatus or equipment used or intended to be used in connection with the transmission of communications by means of electricity from one place to another place either along a wire joining those two places or partly by wire from each of those two places and partly by radio communication; “telecommunications line” means any wire, cable, equipment, tower, mast, antenna, tunnel, hole, pit trench, pole or other structure or thing used or intended to be used in connection with a telecommunications system; “telecommunications service” means a service consisting of the conveyance or reception of any sounds, signs, signals, writing or images by wire, optical or other electronically guided media systems whether or not the signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence have been subjected to rearrangement, computation or other process by any means in the course of their transmission, emission or reception; “telecommunications system” means a system for the conveyance through the agency of electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, electrochemical, electromechanical or light energy of— (a) speech, music, data and other sounds; (b) visual images; (c) signals serving for the importance, whether as between persons and things, of any matter otherwise than in the form of sounds, visual images; or (d) signals serving for the actuation or control of machinery or apparatus; and including telecommunications apparatus situated in the Republic of Uganda; 10