“universal service obligation”

The Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, 13 of 1885, (Rep., Act 44 of 2023) · s. 3 · Repealed or not in force

(1A) "Universal Service Obligation" means the[5] [obligation to provide access to telegraph services] to people in the rural and remote areas at affordable and reasonable prices;] 6[ 7[(1AA)] "telegraph" means any appliance, instrument, material or apparatus used or capable of use for transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, visual or other electro-magnetic emissions, Radio waves or Hertzian waves, galvanic, electric or magnetic means; Explanation.— " Radio waves" or "Hertzian waves" means electro-magnetic waves of frequencies lower than 3,000 giga-cycles per second propagated in space without artificial guide:]