Competition and Consumer (LSS Declaration) Extension 2018 (Cth)

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010

Competition and Consumer (LSS Declaration) Extension 2018

1. Pursuant to section 152ALA(4) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (the Act), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission extends the expiry date for the Line Sharing Service (LSS) declaration to 30 June 2024.

Note: the previous expiry date was 31 July 2019.

2. The LSS is described in Annexure 1 to this instrument.

Rodney Graham Sims Chair Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Dated: 23 November 2018

Annexure 1: Service Description for the LSS Service description The Line Sharing Service is the use of the non-voiceband frequency spectrum of unconditioned communications wire (over which wire an underlying voiceband PSTN service is operating) between the boundary of a telecommunications network at an end-user's premises and a point on a telecommunications network that is a potential point of interconnection located at, or associated with, a customer access module and located on the end-user side of the customer access module. Definitions Where words or phrases used in this declaration are defined in the Act or the Telecommunications Act 1997, they have the same meaning given in the relevant Act. In this Appendix: boundary of a telecommunications network is the point ascertained in accordance with section 22 of the Telecommunications Act 1997; communications wire is a copper or aluminium based wire forming part of a public switched telephone network; customer access module is a device that provides ring tone, ring current and battery feed to customers' equipment. Examples are Remote Subscriber Stages, Remote Subscriber Units, Integrated Remote Integrated Multiplexers, Non-integrated Remote Integrated Multiplexers and the customer line module of a Local Switch; public switched telephone network is a telephone network accessible by the public providing switching and transmission facilities utilising analogue and digital technologies; voiceband PSTN service is a service provided by use of a public switched telephone network and delivered by means of the voiceband portion of the frequency spectrum available over a metallic line.