Competition and Consumer Act 2010

Extension of declaration expiry date under section 152ALA(4)

1. Pursuant to section 152ALA(4) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission extends the expiry date for the wholesale asymmetric digital subscriber line service (Wholesale ADSL Service) declaration to 13 February 2022.

Note: the previous expiry date was 13 February 2017.

2.            The Wholesale ADSL Service is described in Annexure 1 to this instrument.

Dated this 2nd day of February 2017

Rodney Graham Sims

Chairman

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Annexure 1: Service Description for the Wholesale ADSL Service

The wholesale asymmetric digital subscriber line service (wholesale ADSL service) is an internet-grade, best efforts point to point service for the carriage of communications in digital form between a point of interconnection and an end-user network boundary that:

a)      is supplied by means of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology over a twisted metallic pair that runs from the end-user network boundary to the nearest upstream exchange or RIM or CMUX; and

b)      uses a static Layer 2 tunnelling protocol (L2TP) over a transport layer to aggregate communications to the point of interconnection.

Definitions

Where words or phrases used in this declaration are defined in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 or the Telecommunications Act 1997, they have the meaning given in the relevant Act.

In this Annexure:

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology or ADSL means the protocols, recommendations and standards set out in the ITU-TG.992 Recommendations.

Layer 2 has the same meaning as in the Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model for data exchange.

a point of interconnection means an interface that is:

(a) a physical point of interconnection which allows the interconnection of facilities in accordance with subsection 152AR(5) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010; and

(b) located in the same state/territory that the access provider associates with the exchange service area in which the end-user network boundary is located.

an end-user network boundary means the boundary point of the telecommunications network that is:

(i) associated with the end-user premise; and

(ii) ascertained in accordance with section 22 of the Telecommunications Act.