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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 360A

Definitions

    In this Part:

"access agreement" has the same meaning as in Part   XIC of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 .

"anticipated service area" has the meaning given by section   360KA.

"associate" has the meaning given by section   360AB.

"backhaul infrastructure" has the meaning generally accepted within the telecommunications industry.

"building redevelopment project" has the meaning given by section   360Y.

"building unit" has the same meaning as in Part   20A.

"compensation rules" means rules made under section   360VH.

"compliance audit" has the meaning given by section   360XAH.

"contractual arrangement" includes a deed, contract, undertaking or any other form of legally binding arrangement.

"control" has a meaning affected by section   360AC.

"designated compensable rule" has the meaning given by subsection   360V(1B).

"designated compensable standard" has the meaning given by subsection   360U(3B).

"designated service area" has the meaning given by section   360L.

"eligible service" has the same meaning as in section   152AL of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 .

"GDA94" means Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994.

"general service area" has the meaning given by section   360F.

"mobile network" means a telecommunications network that is used principally to supply public mobile telecommunications services.

"NBN Co" has the same meaning as in the National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011 .

"nominated service area" has the meaning given by section   360H, 360HB or 360J.

"project area" , for a building redevelopment project, has the meaning given by section   360Y.

"provisional nominated service area" has the meaning given by section   360H or 360HB.

"qualifying carriage service" means:

  (a)   a qualifying fixed - line carriage service; or

  (b)   a qualifying fixed wireless carriage service; or

  (c)   a qualifying satellite carriage service.

"qualifying fixed-line carriage service" means a carriage service, where:

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

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

  (c)   the peak download transmission speed of the carriage service is at least 25 megabits per second; and

  (d)   the peak upload transmission speed of the carriage service is at least 5 megabits per second.

"qualifying fixed-line telecommunications network" means a telecommunications network that is used to supply a qualifying fixed - line carriage service to customers in Australia.

"qualifying fixed wireless carriage service" has the meaning given by section   360AA.

"qualifying satellite carriage service" means a carriage service, where:

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

  (b)   the carriage service is supplied using a satellite; and

  (c)   the peak download transmission speed of the carriage service is at least 25 megabits per second; and

  (d)   the peak upload transmission speed of the carriage service is at least 5 megabits per second;

but does not include a public mobile telecommunications service.

"qualifying telecommunications network" means a telecommunications network that is used, or proposed to be used, to supply a qualifying carriage service to customers, or prospective customers, in Australia.

"radiocommunications fixed voice call" means a voice call provided using a carriage service:

  (a)   supplied by means of a telecommunications network other than a fixed - line telecommunications network; and

  (b)   marketed to customers, or potential customers, as a carriage service that enables end - users to make and receive voice calls at premises occupied or used by the end - users.

"relevant service area" , in relation to a statutory infrastructure provider, means a service area for which the provider is the statutory infrastructure provider.

"request" includes a notional request by a person to the person.

"service area" has the meaning given by section   360C.

"statutory infrastructure provider" :

  (b)   for the general service area--has the meaning given by section   360G; or

  (c)   for a nominated service area--has the meaning given by section   360K; or

  (ca)   for an anticipated service area--has the meaning given by section   360KB; or

  (d)   for a designated service area--has the meaning given by section   360L.

"TAB vector format" means the MapInfo proprietary format that contains a spatial representation of data using points, lines, and polygons.



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