Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)

Act

means the Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005);

Authority

means ICASA is the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa;

3G

means 3rd Generation of mobile telecommunications and a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specifications by the ITU

Amateur

means a person who is interested in the radio technique solely for a private reason and not for financial gain and to whom the Authority has granted an amateur radio station licence and shall mean a natural person and shall not include a juristic person or an association: provided that an amateur radio station licence may be issued to a licensed radio amateur acting on behalf of a duly founded amateur radio association;

Assignment

means the authorization given by the authority to use a radio frequency or radio frequency channel under specified conditions;

Base station

means a land radio station in the land mobile service for a service with land mobile stations;

BS

means Broadcast Service

BTX

means Base Transceiver;

Burglar alarm service

means a land mobile service installed, maintained and operated to monitor burglar alarm signals of clients by means of a signal forwarded from a radio transmitter to a central position;

CDMA

means Code Division Multiple Access

CEPT

means Conference of European Posts and Telecommunications Authorities;

Citizen-band radio service

means a private, two-way, limited coverage speech communication service in the land mobile service to personal and business operations, which may also be used as a paging system;

Communal radio repeater station service

means a land mobile service installed, maintained and operated via repeater stations that are available for communal use;

Cordless Phone

means a portable telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves with a base station connected to a fixed telephone line, within a limited range of its base station;

DAB

means Digital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations

DECT

means Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications is a digital communication standard, which is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems

DECT-

means Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telephone 1880 - 1900MHz;

DF

means Dual Frequency

DTT

means Digital Terrestrial Television

DTT Mobile

means Digital Terrestrial Television for Mobile services

e.i.r.p

means effective isotopically radiated power;

e.r.p

means effective radiated power, is the product of the power supplied to an antenna and its gain relative to a half wave dipole in a given direction;

EBU

means European Broadcasting Union

ECA

means Electronic Communications ACT of South Africa

ECNS

means Electronic Communications Network Services;

ECS

means Electronic Communications Services;

EDGE

means Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM

EMC

means Electromagnetic Compatibility;

ETSI

means European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FDMA

means Frequency Division Multiple Access

FLEX

means paging software originally developed for Motorola;

FMP

means Frequency Migration Plan

FPLMTS

means Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System also called IMT-2000

FTBFP 2008

means Final Terrestrial Broadcast Frequency Plan of 2008

FWBA

Fixed Wireless Broadband Access

GHz

means Gigahertz of Radio Frequency Spectrum;

GE06

means Digital Broadcast Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006.

GMDSS

means the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System is an internationally agreed-upon set of safety procedures, types of equipment, and communication protocols used to increase safety and make it easier to rescue distressed ships, boats and aircraft.

GSM

means Global System for Mobile Communications, ( originally Groupe Spécial Mobile), is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe technologies for second generation (2G) digital cellular networks

GSM-R

means GSM for Railways

HF

means High Frequency;

IMT

means International Mobile Telecommunications

Inductive Loop Systems

means radio apparatus which operates by producing a controlled magnetic field within which a predetermined recognisable signal is formed;

INMARSAT

means International Maritime Satellite

ISM

means Industrial, Scientific and Medical;

ITU

means International Telecommunications Union

ITU RR

means International Telecommunications Union Radio Regulations

kHz

means kilohertz of Radio Frequency Spectrum;

Land mobile service

means a mobile radio-communication service between fixed stations and mobile land stations, or between land mobile stations;

LEO

means Low Earth Orbit satellites

LMR

means Land Mobile Radio

Low Power Radio

means radio apparatus, normally hand-held radios used for short range two-way voice communications;

LTE

means Long Term Evolution is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies

M2M

means Machine to Machine

MFN

means Multiple Frequency Networks

MHz

means Megahertz of Radio Frequency Spectrum;

MIMO

means Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output is the use of multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver to improve communication performance

Mobile station

means a radio station that is intended to be operated while it is in motion or while it is stationary at an unspecified place;

Model Control apparatus

means radio apparatus used to control the movement of the model in the air, on land or over or under the water surface;

MTX

means Mobile Transceiver;

Non-specific Short-Range Devices

means radio apparatus used for general telemetry, telecommand, alarms and data applications with a present duty cycle (0.1%: S duty cycle< 100%);

NRFP

means the National Radio Frequency Plan 2010 for South Africa

PAMR

means Public Access Mobile Radio

PMR

means Private Mobile Radio or Professional Mobile Radio

PMR

means Public Mobile Radio is radio apparatus used for short range

two-way voice communications;

PPDR

Public Protection and Disaster Relief for emergency and safety radio communications systems

PTM

means Point to Multipoint

PTP

means Point to Point

Radio trunking

means a technique by means of which free channels out of a group of radio frequency channels allocated to a base station are automatically made available for the establishment of a connection between the stations of a user;

Radio-beacon station

means a radio station whose radiation is intended to enable a mobile station to fix its position or obtain its bearing with regard to the radio beacon;

Radio-communication

means all electronic communication by means of radio waves;

Relay or repeater station

means a land station in the land mobile service;

RFID

means Radio Frequency identification is a wireless system that uses radio frequency communication to automatically identify, track and manage objects, people or animals. It consists of two main components viz, tag and a reader which are tuned to the same frequency;

RLAN

means Radio Local Access Network is the high data rate two way (duplex) wireless data communications network;

SABRE

means South African Band Re-planning Exercise

SADC

means Southern African Development Community

SADC FAP

means Southern African Development Community Frequency Allocation Plan 2010

SAPS

means South African Police Service

SATFA

means South African Table of Frequency Allocations 2004

Self Helps

means repeater stations rebroadcasting television channels to limited areas on a low power basis

Service licence

means a BS, ECS or ECNS licence

SF

means Single Frequency

SFN

means Single Frequency Network

Ship station

means a mobile station in the maritime mobile service that has been erected

SNG

means Satellite News Gathering

Spread spectrum

means a form of wireless communications in which the frequency of the transmitted signal is deliberately varied, resulting in a much greater bandwidth than the signal would have if its frequency were not varied;

SRD

means Short Range Device is a piece of apparatus which includes a transmitter, and/or a receiver and or parts thereof, used in alarm, telecommand telemetry applications, etc., operating with analogue speech/music or data (analogue and/or digital) or with combined analogue speech/music and data, using any modulation type intended to operate over short distances;

Studio Links

means point to point links in the broadcasting frequency bands used to connect studios to transmitters

STB

means Set Top Box for DVB-T2 reception

T-DAB

means Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting

TDMA

means Time Division Multiple Access

Telemetry

means the transmission of remotely measured data;

TETRA

means Terrestrial Trunked Radio is a professional mobile radio [2] and two-way transceiver specification. TETRA was specifically designed for use by government agencies, emergency services, (police forces, fire departments, ambulance) for public safety networks, rail transportation staff for train radios, transport services and the military. TETRA is an ETSI standard.

TPC

means Transmitter Power Control is a technical mechanism used within some networking devices in order to prevent unwanted interference between wireless networks;

UHF

means Ultra High Frequency;

UMTS

means Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is a third generation mobile cellular technology for networks based on the GSM standard

VHF

means Very High Frequency;

Video Surveillance Equipment

means radio apparatus used for security camera purposes to replace the cable between a camera and a monitor;

VSAT

means Very Small Aperture Terminal is a two-way satellite ground station that is smaller than 3 meters’ diameter

WAS

means Wireless Access Systems is end-user radio connections to public or private core networks;

Wideband Wireless  Systems

means radio apparatus that uses spread spectrum techniques and has high bit rate;

WRC 2007

means World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 held in Geneva

WRC 2012

means World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 held in Geneva

WRC 2015

means World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 held in Geneva