To make new provision for the regulation of telecommunication activities other than broadcasting, and for the control of the radio frequency spectrum; and for that purpose to establish an independent South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and a Universal Service Agency; to repeal the Radio Act, 1952, and the Radio Amendment Acts of 1957, 1962, 1963, 1969 and 1974 and to amend the General Law Amendment Acts of 1957 and 1975, the Post Office Act, 1958, the Post Office Service Act, 1974, the Broadcasting Act, 1976, the Legal Succession to the South African Transport Services Act, 1989, and the Independent Broadcasting Authority Act, 1993; and to provide for matters connected therewith.