(1)[ Fund means the Universal Service Obligation Fund established under sub-section (1) of section 9-A;(1-A) Universal Service Obligation means the [obligation to provide access to telegraph services] [Inserted by Act 8 of 2004, Section 2 (w.r.e.f. 1.4.2002).] to people in the rural and remote areas at affordable and reasonable prices;][[(1-AA)] [Substituted by Act 15 of 1961, Section 2, for Clause (1)(w.e.f. 2.5.1961).] 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;]
