Section 22, The Telecommunications Act, 2006

(1) A person is a telecommunications operator if he isengaged in– (a) providing telecommunications services through telecommunications network leased from third parties; (b) selling or leasing out telecommunications network capacity to third parties but providing no telecommunications service, himself; (c) providing telecommunications network capacity to others and also services to his own customers; or (d) the establishment, installation, use, working, maintenance, development, construction, promotion, hiring or selling connected with any activity specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c). (2) For the purposes of this section, “telecommunications services” means the form and manner of the routing, exploitation or distribution of information through the telecommunications networks, and such services are classified as follows:– (a) public telecommunication services, that is to say, those destined to the general public; (b) private telecommunications services destined to own use or to a limited number of users; both the public and private telecommunications services are also subdivided into– (i) addressed telecommunications services that is to say; those that imply previous addressing; and (ii) broadcasting telecommunications services, that is to say; those where communication is made in one way or direction, simultaneously to various reception points without previous addressing. Telecommuoperations subject to licensing. (3) By telecommunications networks is meant– (a) the set of physical means, called infrastructures; or (b) the electromagnetic means; that support the transmission, reception or broadcast of signals, and such networks are divided into– (i) public telecommunications networks, namely; those that support, in full or in part, public telecommunications services; and (ii) private telecommunications networks, namely; those that merely support private services.