Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

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

             (1)  For the purposes of this Act, a digital data service is:

                     (a)  a general digital data service (see subsection (2)); or

                     (b)  a special digital data service (see subsection (3)).

General digital data service

             (2)  For the purposes of this Act, a general digital data service is a carriage service that provides a digital data capability broadly comparable to that provided by a data channel with a data transmission speed of 64 kilobits per second supplied to end‑users as part of the designated basic rate ISDN service.

Special digital data service

             (3)  For the purposes of this Act, a special digital data service is a carriage service that provides for a capability for the delivery of digital data to an end‑user broadly comparable to the corresponding capability provided by a data channel with a data transmission speed of 64 kilobits per second supplied to end‑users as part of the designated basic rate ISDN service.

Designated basic rate ISDN service

             (4)  For the purposes of this section, if:

                     (a)  immediately before 1 July 1997, Telstra supplied a basic rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) service; and

                     (b)  the service complied with any of the standards for ISDN services made by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI);

the service is a designated basic rate ISDN service .

Comparability of digital data capability

             (5)  For the purposes of subsection (2), the determination of the comparability of the digital data capability of a carriage service is to be based solely on a comparison of the data transmission speed available to an end‑user of the service.