Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 55

55. The objects of this Part are to help achieve the objects of this Act by:

   (a)  establishing a system for licensing general carriers, on the basis
        that they are to be:

   (i)  the primary providers of Australia's line-based and satellite-based
        public telecommunications capacity; and

   (ii) the primary suppliers of telecommunications services by the use of
        line links and satellite-based facilities; and

   (b)  establishing a system for licensing mobile carriers, on the basis that
        they are to be the primary suppliers of
        public mobile telecommunications services; and

   (c)  providing for a Code of Practice that:

   (i)  relates to dealings by carriers with international telecommunications
        operators and with other persons; and

   (ii) is to operate, together with the class licence system established by
        Part 10, to prevent the misuse of market power by international
        telecommunications operators; and

   (d)  providing for accounting separation of the various business activities
        of each carrier, in order to:

   (i)  identify cross-subsidisation between business activities that do not
        face strong competition and those that do; and

   (ii) encourage each carrier to improve each of the main parts of its
        business.