Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (EQUIPMENT FOR THE DISABLED) REGULATIONS 1998 1998 No. 133 - REG 4

4. (1) Part 7 of the Act establishes a universal service regime for Australian
telecommunications.

(2) Under subsection 149 (1) of the Act, the universal service obligation is
the obligation:

   (a)  to ensure that standard telephone services are reasonably accessible
        to all people in Australia on an equitable basis, wherever they reside
        or carry on business; and

   (b)  to ensure that payphones are reasonably accessible to all people in
        Australia on an equitable basis, wherever they reside or carry on
        business; and

   (c)  to ensure that prescribed carriage services are reasonably accessible
        to all people in Australia on an equitable basis, wherever they reside
        or carry on business.

(3) To the extent necessary to achieve this obligation, it is part of the
universal service obligation:

   (a)  to supply standard telephone services to people in Australia on
        request; and

   (b)  to supply, install and maintain payphones in Australia; and

   (c)  to supply prescribed carriage services to people in Australia on
        request.