Telecommunications Law Law No. 31/ 2013 dated 8 October 2013 Chapter I Title, application and definition 1. The Law shall be called the Telecommunications Law. 2. The provisions in this Law and its subsidiary legislation shall apply: (a) To any person, department and organization within the land, sea and airspace territory of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar ; (b) To Myanmar citizens outside of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, wherever they reside. 3. The following expressions contained in this Law shall have the meanings given hereunder: (a) Telecommunications means a transmission or reception of information in its original or modified form by wire, fiber optic cable or any conducting cable, or by means of radio, optical or any other form of electromagnetic transmission; (b) Information includes data, texts, images, sounds, codes, signs, signals, databases and any combination thereof; (c) Wireless communications means transmission or reception of information by means of radio, optical, electromagnetic transmission or any other means without the use of wires, fiber optical cables or any conducting cable between the transmitter and the receiver; (d) Telecommunications network means a network of telecommunications facilities, telecommunications equipment, computers, or any peripherals used in conjunction with any or more of the above, by means of any form of wired or wireless communications technology; (e) Network territory on user’s side means the place where telecommunications equipment is initially connected or where information from a user is received or where a network facility which sends information to a user is situated; (f) Telecommunications service means provision of one or more network facilities service, network service and application service; (g) Network facilities service means a service provided by the owner of network facilities including leasing all or part of the network facility to other licensees, or the self-provision of any telecommunications services on the facility; (h) Network service means a service for transmission and reception of information by any means of guided or unguided electronic radiation. This expression does not include services provided solely on the customer side of the network boundary; (i) Application service means a service provided by means of one or more network services. This expression does not include services provided solely on the customer side of the network boundary; (j) Telecommunications equipment includes the telecommunications equipment specified by the Ministry in accordance with this law; (k) Telecommunications market means the market for any telecommunications service or for goods or services used in conjunction with any of the telecommunications service; www.FreeExpressionMyanmar.org