Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1990 No. 370 TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3

3.1 Insert the following definitions: `` `cellular mobile telephone handset'
means a telephone handset used in a telecommunications service consisting of:

   (a)  1 or more handsets; and

   (b)  2 or more base stations forming part of a public mobile telephone
        service where the area served by each base station (in this definition
        called a `cell') is restricted; and

   (c)  1 or more stations (in this definition called `mobile switching
        centres') which:

        (i)    are able to communicate by means of radiocommunications with;
               or

        (ii)   are connected by a line to; 2 or more base stations and a
               public switched telephone network;
being a service where:

   (d)  the operator of a handset may communicate with other users of the
        public switched telephone network by means of radio signals between
        the handset and a base station; and

   (e)  as the operator of the handset moves from the cell of 1 base station
        into the cell of an adjoining base station - a mobile switching centre
        redirects the signals from the handset so that the signals that would
        otherwise have been channelled through the first-mentioned base
        station are channelled through the adjoining base station; `cordless
        telephone' means a telephone consisting of:

   (a)  a base station connected by means of a line
to a public switched telephone network; and

   (b)  1 or more handsets:

        (i)    none of which is a cellular mobile telephone
handset; and

        (ii)   none of which is connected by a line to the
base station; and

        (iii)  by means of which communication may be
achieved through the base station with other users
of the public switched telephone network by the
transmission of radio signals between the handset
and the base station;".

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