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Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to a Telecommunications Network – AS/CA S003) 2015
Telecommunications Act 1997

The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Technical Standard under subsection 376(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated     2     17th February 2015

Chris Chapman
[signed]
Member

Richard Bean
[signed]
Member /
General Manager

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Part 1 – Preliminary

      1 Name of Technical Standard

          (1) This Technical Standard is the Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to a Telecommunications Network – AS/CA S003) 2015.
          (2) This Technical Standard may also be cited as AS/CA S003-2015.

      2 Commencement

  This Technical Standard commences on the day after it is registered.

          Note    All legislative instruments must be registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments required to be maintained under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

      3 Revocation

  The following instruments are revoked:
          (a)          Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network – Part 1: General – AS/CA S003.1: 2010) 2010 [F2010L02571];
          (b)          Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network – Part 2: Analogue and TDM based technologies – AS/CA S003.2:2010) 2010 [F2010L02572]; and

          (c)          Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network – Part 3: Packet and cell based technology – AS/CA S003.3:2010) 2010 [F2010L02573].

4 Objects of Technical Standard

  The objects of this Technical Standard are to specify requirements that are necessary or convenient for:

      (a) protecting the integrity of a telecommunications network or a facility;

      (b) protecting the health or safety of persons who:
       (i) operate;
       (ii) work on;
       (iii) use services supplied by means of; or
              (iv) are otherwise reasonably likely to be affected by the operation of;
           a telecommunications network or a facility;

          (c) ensuring that customer equipment can be used to give access to an emergency call service; and

          (d) ensuring, for the purposes of the supply of a standard telephone service, the interoperability of customer equipment with a telecommunications network to which the equipment is, or is proposed to be, connected.
Part 2 – Interpretation

5 Definitions

 In this Technical Standard:

ACMA transition period, in relation to an applicable AS/CA Standard, has the meaning given by section 7.

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

      amendment instrument, in relation to an applicable AS/CA Standard, means an instrument that amends that standard.
analogue/TDM item means an item of customer access equipment that:
         (a)          uses either or both of the following to attain a port connection:
            (i)    an analogue technology;
            (ii)  a PCM based TDM technology; and
         (b)         does not use packet based technology, or have any interfaces to a packet based network.

Note "PCM"