Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00266:reg:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00266
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 3238–6039

5  Definitions

In this industry standard:

       ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

       advertising material means any promotional or marketing material that is distributed by any means about a retail carriage service provider's NBN services.

       Broadband Speed Claims: Industry Guidance means the ACCC's Broadband Speed Claims: Industry Guidance, which is published on its website: www.accc.gov.au.

       busy period means the times between 7 pm and 11 pm in the place where an NBN broadband service is being supplied to a consumer under an NBN consumer plan.

consumer means:

           (a)          an individual who acquires or may acquire an NBN service provided for the primary purpose of personal or domestic use and not for resale; or

           (b)          a business or non-profit organisation which acquires or may acquire one or more NBN services which are not for resale and which, at the time it enters into the consumer contract:

              (i)            does not have a genuine and reasonable opportunity to negotiate the terms of the consumer contract; and

              (ii)         has or will have an annual spend with the retail carriage service provider which is, or is estimated on reasonable grounds by the retail carriage service provider to be, no greater than $40,000.

A reference to a consumer includes a reference to the consumer's representative.

       consumer contract means an arrangement or agreement between a retail carriage service provider and a consumer for the supply of an NBN service under an NBN consumer plan to that consumer and includes a standard form of agreement formulated by a retail carriage service provider for the purposes of section 479 of the Act.
fibre to the building connection or FTTB means a connection used by NBN Co to facilitate the supply of an NBN service in a multi-dwelling unit, such as an apartment block or building of a similar type.
fibre to the curb connection or FTTC means a connection used by NBN Co to facilitate the supply of an NBN service where the connection between the distribution point unit and the network termination device uses a copper line that is owned or controlled by, or operated by or on behalf of, NBN Co and carries communications using very high speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) technology or successor technologies, to a premises.
fibre to the node connection or FTTN means a connection used by NBN Co to facilitate the supply of an NBN service where an existing copper network is used to make the final part of an NBN connection, from a nearby cabinet or micro-node to a premises.

fibre to the premises or FTTP means a connection used by NBN Co to supply an NBN service where an optic fibre line