Information and Communication Technologies [No. 15 of 2009 129 implement and administer the licencing and assignment schemes provided for under this Act, including setting standards for the sector; provide for national frequency and numbering plans and facilitate the efficient use and allocation of numbers and frequencies; promote and facilitate the provision, in urban and rural areas, of such information and electronic communication services that meets all reasonable demand including, in particular, emergency services, directory information services and maritime services; approve the sites at which all transmitting stations, other than aircraft stations, mobile stations or ship stations, are to be established and at which all radio station apparatus used in connection with the transmitting station is to be erected; (e) disseminate information and promote the participation of the public in the provision of electronic communications services; (D promote the interests of consumers, purchasers and other users of information and electronic communications services, including, in particular, persons with disabilities and the aged in respect of the accessibility, quality and variety of the services and equipment; promote competition among persons engaged in commercial activities relating to, or in connection with, the provision of information and communication technology and efficiency and economy on the part of persons so engaged; promote research, development and the use of new and appropriate technologies in the sector and promote the manufacturing and production of relevant apparatus; N attract and encourage local and foreign investment in information and communication technology and promote the provision of international transit services; administer the country code top level domain and electronic addresses; (k) allocate the frequency on which all radio transmitting stations and apparatus shall be worked; (1) approvethe mode of transmission to be adopted in connection with all transmitting stations and the power to be radiated therefrom; the classes, types and standards of transmitting stations and the radio station apparatus to be used in connection with different classes of radio communication services; and