COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010
Extension of declaration expiry date under section 152ALA(4)
Variation of declaration in accordance with section 152AO
- Pursuant to section 152ALA(4) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Act), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) extends the expiry date for the Line Sharing Service (LSS) declaration to 31 July 2019.
Note: the previous expiry date was 31 July 2014.
2. In accordance with section 152AO of the Act, the ACCC varies the LSS declaration. This variation commences on 1 August 2014.
3. The LSS is described and varied in Annexure 1 to this instrument.
Rodney Graham Sims
Chairman
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Dated: 16 April 2014
Annexure 1: Service Description for the LSS
Service description
The line sharing service is the use of the non-voiceband frequency spectrum of unconditioned communications wire (over which wire an underlying voiceband PSTN service is operating) between the boundary of a telecommunications network at an end-user’s premises and a point on a telecommunications network that is a potential point of interconnection located at, or associated with, a customer access module and located on the end-user side of the customer access module.
Definitions
Where words or phrases used in this declaration are defined in the Act or the Telecommunications Act 1997, they have the same meaning given in the relevant Act.
In this Appendix:
boundary of a telecommunications network is the point ascertained in accordance with section 22 of the Telecommunications Act 1997;
communications wire is a copper or aluminium based wire forming part of a public switched telephone network;
customer access module is a device that provides ring tone, ring current and battery feed to customers’ equipment. Examples are Remote Subscriber Stages, Remote Subscriber Units, Integrated Remote Integrated Multiplexers, Non-integrated Remote Integrated Multiplexers and the customer line module of a Local Switch;
public switched telephone network is a telephone network accessible by the public providing switching and transmission facilities utilising analogue and digital technologies;
voiceband PSTN service is a service provided by use of a public switched telephone network and delivered by means of the voiceband portion of the frequency spectrum available over a metallic line.