THE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 01/2001/TT-TCBD
Hanoi, March 26, 2001
 
CIRCULAR
AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF POINTS IN CIRCULAR No. 04/1998/TT-TCBD OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1998 OF THE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S DECREE No. 109/1997/ND-CP ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND SERVICES
On the basis of reviewing the implementation of Circular No. 04/1998/TT-TCBD of September 29, 1998 of the General Department of Post and Telecommunications, in order to create favorable conditions for the establishment, management and exploitation of telecommunications networks as well as the provision and use of telecommunications services, the General Department of Post and Telecommunications amends and supplements a number of points of Circular No. 04/1998/TT-TCBD as follows:
1. Point 1.2.10 is amended as follows:
"Special-use telecommunications network" (hereafter called private-use telecommunications network) is network established by its owner in order to provide internal communications among networks members, including two or more telecommunications equipment installed at different locations and connected with one another by transmission lines hired or built by the network owners, of which at least two telecommunications equipment and one transmission line must be located on the Vietnamese territory.
The above-mentioned locations shall be construed as locations with definite addresses and range where members of the private-use telecommunications networks have the full power to use according to the provisions of law.
Special private-use telecommunications networks are those with their members being Vietnamese agencies and organizations or foreign agencies and organizations lawfully operating in Vietnam, which share the operation features or working purposes, and are bound together by their operation charters or legal documents stipulating the common organizational structures or forms of cooperation and joint operation.
Depending on the transmission mode used for their establishment, the private-use telecommunications networks are classified into wireless private-use networks, wire private-use networks and wire-cum-wireless private-use networks.
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