Type
Date
Summary
Declared service
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission declares pursuant to section 152AL(3) of the Act that the line sharing service is a "declared service" for the purposes of Part XIC of the Act.
Date
Declaration of the line sharing service was extended on 29 October 2007; to expire on 31 July 2009.
Service description
The High Frequency Unconditioned Local Loop 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 Trade Practices Act 1974 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 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 of a metallic line.