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COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010

Competition and Consumer (WLR Declaration) Extension 2018

     1. 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 Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) declaration to 30 June 2024.

Note: the previous expiry date was 31 July 2019.

    2.      The WLR is described in Annexure 1 to this instrument.

Rodney Graham Sims
Chair
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Dated:  23 November 2018

Annexure 1: Service Description for the WLR
Service description
The Wholesale Line Rental service is a line rental telephone service which allows an end-user to connect to a carrier or carriage service provider's public switched telephone network, and provides the end-user with:
    (a) an ability to make and receive any 3.1khz bandwidth calls (subject to any conditions that might apply to particular types of calls), including, but not limited to, local calls, national and international long distance calls; and
(b) a telephone number
however, the wholesale line rental service does not include services where the connectivity between the end-user and the carrier or carriage service provider's network is provided in whole or in part by means of a Layer 2 bitstream service that is supplied by an NBN corporation.
Definitions
Where words or phrases used in this declaration are defined in the Act or the Telecommunications Act 1997, they have the same meaning given in the relevant Act.
In this Appendix:
Layer 2 bitstream service has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1997;
NBN corporation has the same meaning as in the National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011;
public switched telephone network is a telephone network accessible by the public providing switching and transmission facilities utilising analogue and digital technologies.

   Note: The name of this instrument was amended on registration as the instrument as lodged did not have a unique name (see subsection 10(2), Legislation Rule 2016).