Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 12A

(a) a general digital data service (see subsection (2)); or

(b) a special digital data service (see subsection (3)).

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a general digital data service is a carriage service that provides a digital data capability broadly comparable to that provided by a data channel with a data transmission speed of 64 kilobits per second supplied to end-users as part of the designated basic rate ISDN service.

Special digital data service

(3) For the purposes of this Act, a special digital data service is a carriage service that provides for a capability for the delivery of digital data to an end-user broadly comparable to the corresponding capability provided by a data channel with a data transmission speed of 64 kilobits per second supplied to end-users as part of the designated basic rate ISDN service.

Designated basic rate ISDN service

(4) For the purposes of this section, if:

(a) immediately before 1 July 1997, Telstra supplied a basic rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) service; and

(b) the service complied with any of the standards for ISDN services made by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI);

Comparability of digital data capability

(5) For the purposes of subsection (2), the determination of the comparability of the digital data capability of a carriage service is to be based solely on a comparison of the data transmission speed available to an end-user of the service.