Telecommunication Service - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Telecommunication service, means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data services, audio tax services, video tax services, radio paging and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, visual or other electromagnetic means but shall not include broadcasting service:Provided that the Central Government may notify other service to be telecommunication service in-cluding broadcasting services. [Telecom Regula-tory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997), s. 2(k)]Means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data service, audio tax services, video tax services, radio paying and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing images, and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, rad...
Basic Telecommunication Service
Basic Telecommunication Service, means service derived from a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and as specified in the licence [Regulation on Quality of Service of Basic and Cellular Mobile Telephone Service, 2005, R. 2(iii)]...
Cable service
Cable service, 'cable service' means the transmission by cables of programmes including re-transmission by cables of any broadcast television signals. [Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 (7 of 1995), s. 2(b)]Means the transmission by cables of programmes including re-transmission by cables of any broadcast television signals, Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable Services) Interconnection Regulations, 2004, reg. 2(h)....
Licensee
Licensee, a person to whom a licence has been granted.Clause (h) of s. 2 of the Electricity Act, 1910 defines a 'Licensee' to mean any person licensed under Part II to supply energy, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Hindustan Aluminium Corpn., AIR 1979 SC 1459: (1979) 3 SCR 709: (1979) 3 SCC 229. Electricity Act, 1910, s. 2 (A).A licensee is one who is in occupation under a subsisting agreement for licence. The agreement for licence must be subsisting on the date on which he claims to be a licensee, Ludhichem Agencies v. Ahmed R. V. Peer Mohamed, AIR 1981 SC 1998: (1982) 1 SCR 712: (1981) 4 SCC 273.It means a person licensed under Part II of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 to supply energy or a person who has obtained sanction under section 28 of that Act to engage in the business of supplying energy (but does not include the Board or a Generating company). [Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act, 1998 (14 of 1998), s. 2 (l)]Means any person licensed under sub-s. (1) of s. 4 of the Indian Te...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Condition of service
Condition of service, includes transfer of the employees, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief v. Subhash Chandra Yadav, (1988) 2 SCC 351: AIR 1988 SC 876. [Cantonment Board Service Rules (1937) R. 5C]The expression 'conditions of service' is an expression of wide import. As pointed by the Supreme Court in Pradyat Kumar Bose v. Hon'ble the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, (1955) 2 SCR 1331, the dismissal of an official is a matter which falls within 'conditions of service' of public servants. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in North West Frontier Province v. Suraj Narain Anand, (1948) LR 75 IA 343, took the view that a right of dismissal is a condition of service within the meaning of the words under s. 243 of the Government of India Act, 1935. Lord Thankerton speaking for the Board observed therein: 'apart from consideration whether the context indicates a special significance to the expression 'conditions of service' their Lordships are unable in the absence of any su...
Air traffic service
Air traffic service, 'air traffic service' includes flight information service, alerting service, air traffic advisory service, air traffic control service, area control service, approach control service and airport control service. [Airports Authority of India Act, (55 of 1994), s. 2(d)]...
Supplies and services
Supplies and services, all supplies are not services and all services are not supplies but the complex needs and samenities of modern life and the multifarious obligations of a welfare State mingle supplies and services so much that the concentric circle geometry becomes a misleading stroke of conceptualism in this journal area. For example, an essential commodity is at once a supply and a service. Rushing food supplies to a nation in hunger is a composite operation of supplies and services essential to the life of the community and the order is not bad because it telescopes both, Jagdish Prasad v. State of Bihar, AIR 1974 SC 911: (1974) 4 SCC 455: (1974) 3 SCR 369.Indulging in black-marketing is conduct which is prejudicial to the maintenance of supplies. It is hardly necessary to read supplies conjunctively with services as was contended although cases may exist where supplies and services may both be affected. The word 'and' is not used conjunctively but disjunctively. If sweepers' ...
Consumer and service
Consumer and service, it is imperative that the words 'consumer' and 'service' as defined under the Act should be construed to comprehend consumer and services of commercial and trade oriented nature only. Thus any person who is found to have hired services for consideration shall be deemed to be a consumer notwithstanding that the services were in connection with any goods or their user. Such services may be for any connected commercial activity and may also relate to the services as indicated in s. 2(1)(o) of the Act, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner v. Shiv Kumar Joshi, AIR 2000 SC 331 (336). [Consumer Protection Act, (68 of 1986), s. 2(1)(d), s. 2(1)(o)]...
Contract of service and contract for service
Contract of service and contract for service, a 'contract for service' implies a contract whereby one party undertakes to render services e.g. professional or technical services, to or for another in the performance of which he is not subject to detailed direction and control but exercises profes-sional or technical skill and uses his own know-ledge and discretion. (See: Oxford Companion to law, p. 1134). A 'contract of service, implies relationship of master an servant and involves an obligation to obey orders in the work to be performed and as to its mode and manner of performance. (See: Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 540, Indian Medical Assn. v. V.P. Shantha, (1985) 6 SCC 651 (674). (Consumer Protection Act, 1986)...
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