Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)ICASARadiocommunication Frequency Migration Plan 2019AppendicesAppendix A : Glossary |
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 |