Functions and Powers

The Organ shall have the functions and powers necessary to achieve the objectives thereof, provided for in Section (6).
Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, the Organ shall have the following functions and powers, to:
Protect the State obligations and requirements in the field of security and national defense, and national, regional and international policies, in co-ordination with the competent authorities and licensees.
Lay down the directives, plans, programmes and systems of the provision of telecommunications and post services at the national level, the same being subject to balanced development and serving the national and social objectives and implementing the State policies, relating to telecommunications and post.
Lay down systems for planning, management allocation, licensing, control the use of Frequency Spectrum and operation and use of wireless systems and broadcasting stations, subject to the security aspects relating thereto, in coordination with the bodies having connection.
Specify the specifications for systems, devices and materials used in the field of telecommunications and post services, and lay down the styles of metrology, conformity and the necessary control thereof, in co-ordination with the bodies having connection.
Lay down the national digiting plan and organize and manage the same.
Lay down the Postal Addresses and regulation system and organize and manage the same.
Ensure accessibility of Telecommunications and Post services to all areas of residential expansion, economic activity, urban, rural and remote areas at easy prices, accompanying technologies and high quality.
Ensure protection and confidentiality of the Post.
Ensure the organization and benefiting by the data resulting from the movement of subscribers communications, as the regulations may specify.
Ensure abidance by transparency, and justice among licensees.
Take the necessary arrangements and measures, to limit the uncompetitive behavior of licensees, as the regulations may specify.
Inflict a financial sanction, in the case of contravention, by the licensee, of the provisions of this Act, the same being as the regulation may specify.
Organize the Domains Names in the Sudan, and lay down the systems, pertaining to the uses of the Internet and applications thereof, protect the secrecy of information and limit the uses which are inconsistent with beliefs, values, morals and heritages.
Co-ordinate with the competent bodies with respect to the import, assembly and manufacture of devices, equipment, materials, and systems of Telecommunications, and grant typical approvals and validate of such devices, equipment and materials.
Establish the centres and units which are necessary for the achievement of the objects thereof.
Represent the State in the regional and international.
Technically inspect, measure, control, monitor, and supervise all Telecommunications and Post services activities, as to such bases and standards, as the regulations may specify.
Issue the safeguards and directives to ensure the environmental and health standards in everything relating to Telecommunications and Post, including the electronic refuses, electromagnetic radiations and emissions of noxious gases, in coordination with the bodies having connection.
Pass the designs and specifications of Postal Stamps and approve the issue thereof.
Acquire real estates and movables, and dispose thereof, in accordance with the provisions of the Law.
Conclude contracts and agreements having connection with the functions and powers as to such laws and regulations, as may organize the same.
Employ whoever they may deem their employment necessary, to be able to coup up with the tasks thereof, in accordance with the provisions of the laws having connection.

The Organ shall have the following objects, to:

Organize and promote telecommunications and post to run a breast development in both fields.
Encourage and protect investment in the field of telecommunications and post services and applications, organize free competition and provide a suitable environment for growth of the sector, strategic by deeming the same as a national strategic affair.
Secure availing the Interconnection and mutual operation among licensed networks.
Promote human capacities, raise awareness and strengthen trust in the field of telecommunications and Post.
Strengthen the role of the Sudan in the field of telecommunications and post at both the international and regional levels.
Strive for reaching of the telecommunications and postal services to all areas of residential expansion and economic activity; and urban, rural and remote areas all over the Sudan, and likewise the outside world.
Ensure the ideal use of the frequency spectrum, digiting, postal addresses and any other rare sources having connection and achieve the maximum limit of the utilization thereof.
Ensure abidance by the classes of the regional and international agreements, which are ratified by the Sudan and relating to telecommunications or post;
Ensure the safety of international gateways and marine.
Protect the national security and higher interests of the Sudan in the field of telecommunications, post and information technology.