[monsecchris]

The purpose of an entity is what it does, not what its mission statement says it should be doing.

[squidbeak]

Nice soundbite, but no, the purpose of (for instance) the Royal Mail isn't to funnel postmasters to jail.

[phendrenad2]

You're missing the point. Is it better to call a thing by what it does, or what it (giving the benefit of the doubt here) claims to do?

[jimnotgym]

Most of what it does is oodles of boring regulation of things like radio spectrums . So yes, it is a telecommunication regulator.

[phendrenad2]

That brings up another question: Is it better to call things by what they primarily do, or what they do that's relevant to the discussion?

If I put sandbags in front of my house to stop a flood, I don't call it a "beach".