Sentences with phrase «public electronic communication network»

The most famous social media arrest came during the «Twitter joke trial», when Paul Chambers was convicted of using a «public electronic communication network» to send a «message of menacing character» when he tweeted:

Under section 127 of the Communications Act it is an offence if someone «sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message... [more]

(1)(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character;

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(d) the licensee ceases to (i) operate the public communications network, (ii) provide the public electronic communications service, or (iii) use the frequency band.»

This is due to Directive 2006 / 24 / EC of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks.