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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 142BD

Designated carriage service

  (1)   For the purposes of this Part, designated carriage service means:

  (a)   if a carriage service is specified in an instrument under subsection   (2)--that carriage service; or

  (b)   otherwise--a Layer 2 bitstream service.

  (2)   The ACCC may, by legislative instrument, specify a carriage service for the purposes of paragraph   (1)(a).

  (3)   The ACCC must not specify a carriage service under subsection   (2) unless:

  (a)   the carriage service enables end - users to download communications; and

  (b)   the download transmission speed of the carriage service is normally 25 megabits per second or more; and

  (c)   the carriage service is supplied using a line to premises occupied or used by an end - user; and

  (d)   there is in force a declaration under subsection   152AL(3) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 that relates to the carriage service.



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