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TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATIONS 2021 - REG 13

Industry codes and industry standards not to deal with certain design features and performance requirements--exception relating to next - generation broadband services

  (1)   For the purposes of subparagraphs   115(2)(a)(iii) and (b)(iii) of the Act, the following matters are specified:

  (a)   interference between telecommunications systems being operated to supply any of the following:

  (i)   next - generation broadband services;

  (ii)   legacy services;

  (iii)   any other carriage services supplied over twisted pair cables;

  (b)   the health and safety of a person operating or working on customer equipment, customer cabling, a telecommunications network or a facility that incorporates, or is used with, a next - generation broadband service;

  (c)   the integrity of customer equipment, customer cabling, a telecommunications network or a facility that incorporates, or is used with, a next - generation broadband service.

  (2)   A next - generation broadband service is any of the following services:

  (a)   VDSL (very high - speed digital subscriber line);

  (b)   VDSL2;

  (c)   VDSL2 with vectoring;

  (d)   G.fast;

  (e)   a service that uses a successor technology to any other next - generation broadband service.

  (3)   A legacy service is any of the following services:

  (a)   PSTN (public switched telephone network);

  (b)   ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line);

  (c)   ADSL2;

  (d)   ADSL2+;

  (e)   SHDSL (single pair high - speed digital subscriber line);

  (f)   ISDN (integrated services digital network);

  (g)   another service (other than VDSL) covered by the Communications Alliance Industry Code C559:2012 "Unconditioned Local Loop Service (ULLS) Network Deployment", as registered by the ACMA on 16   May 2012 under section   117 of the Act.

 



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