Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 10

                   For the purposes of this Act, the digital data service obligation is the obligation:

                     (a)  to ensure that one or other of the following:

                              (i)  general digital data services;

                             (ii)  special digital data 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 general digital data services are reasonably accessible to at least 96% of the Australian population on an equitable basis; and

                     (c)  to ensure that special digital data services are reasonably accessible to the remainder of the Australian population on an equitable basis.