Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 26

26. (1) A telecommunications service that, but for paragraph 25 (1) (a), would
be a public mobile telecommunications service is a public access
cordless telecommunications service unless:

   (a)  the service is supplied by the use of facilities that include at least
2 fixed facilities (called ``base stations") each of which transmits and ''
NAME="mobile_equipment"> receives signals to and from customer equipment
(called ``mobile equipment") that is:

   (i)  used for or in relation to the supply of the service; and ''
        NAME="cell"> (ii) located within a particular area (called a ``cell");
        and

   (b)  the service includes the functions necessary to do the following while
        the service is carrying a communication made to or from particular
        mobile equipment:

   (i)  determine in which cell the equipment is located and cause the base
        station in that cell to transmit and receive signals to and from the
        equipment;

   (ii) when the equipment moves from one cell to another, cause the base
        station in the one cell to stop, and the base station in the other
        cell to start, transmitting and receiving signals to and from the
        equipment.

(2) The regulations may provide that paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) must be
disregarded in determining whether prescribed telecommunications services are
public access cordless telecommunications services.

(3) The regulations may provide that prescribed telecommunications services
are not public access cordless telecommunications services.

(4) The regulations may provide that the supply of prescribed equipment is not
a public access cordless telecommunications service. ''PRE>









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