COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010
Extension of declaration expiry date under section s152ALA(4) – Domestic Mobile Terminating Access Service – 2024
- 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 Domestic Mobile Terminating Access Service (MTAS) declaration to 30 June 2029.
Note: the previous expiry date was 30 June 2024.
2. The MTAS is described in Annexure 1 to this instrument.
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Anna Brakey
Commissioner
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Dated: 24 June 2024
Annexure 1: Service description for the Domestic Mobile Terminating Access Service
The domestic mobile terminating access services is an access service for the carriage of voice calls from a point of interconnection, or potential point of interconnection, to a B-Party directly connected to the access provider’s digital mobile network.
Definitions
Where words or phrases used in this Declaration are defined in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, or the Telecommunications Act 1997 or the Telecommunications Numbering Plan 1997, they have the meaning given in the relevant Act or instrument.
Other definitions
B-Party is the end-user to whom a telephone call is made.
Digital mobile network is a telecommunications network that is used to provide digital mobile telephony services.
Point of interconnection is a location which:
a) Is a physical point of demarcation between the access seeker’s network and the access provider’s digital mobile network, and
b) Is associated with (but not necessarily co-located with) one or more gateway exchanges of the access seeker’s network and the access provider’s digital mobile network.