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Telecommunications (Mobile Equipment Air Interface) Technical Standard 2022
Telecommunications Act 1997

The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes the following technical standard under subsection 376(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated: 8 December 2022

Chris Jose
[signed]
Member

Linda Caruso
[signed]
Member/General Manager

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Part 1 – Preliminary
      1 Name

          (1) This technical standard is the Telecommunications (Mobile Equipment Air Interface) Technical Standard 2022.

          (2) This technical standard may also be cited as the Mobile Equipment Standard 2022.

      2 Commencement

  This technical standard commences at the start of 22 December 2022.

3 Authority
  This technical standard is made under subsection 376(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4 Repeal of the Telecommunications (Mobile Equipment Air Interface) Technical Standard 2018

  The Telecommunications (Mobile Equipment Air Interface) Technical Standard 2018 (F2018L01727) is repealed.

5 Background

          (1) This technical standard applies to particular customer equipment, as provided by section 13.

             Note: A thing that is customer equipment to which this technical standard applies is referred to as an item.

          (2) This technical standard consists only of such requirements as are necessary or convenient for the following:

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

          (b) protecting the health or safety of persons who:
          (i) operate; or
          (ii) work on; or
          (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;

             (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
6 Definitions

 In this technical standard:

3G/4G technology means any of the following technologies:
          (a)           UTRA FDD;
          (b)           E-UTRA FDD;
          (c)           E-UTRA TDD;
          (d)           OFDMA TDD WMAN.

          Note: "UTRA FDD" stands for Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Frequency Division Duplexing.

           "E-UTRA FDD" stands for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Frequency Division Duplexing.

           "E-UTRA TDD" stands for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Time Division Duplexing.

           "OFDMA TDD WMAN" stands for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Time Division Duplexing Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.

          5G technology means either of the following technologies:
          (a)           5G New Radio;
          (b)           5G New Radio and E-UTRA (LTE).

          Note: "E-UTRA (LTE)" stands for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (Long Term Evolution).

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

      addressable device means a device that enables a carriage service provider to identify the device when used for two-way communications on a public mobile telecommunications service or a satellite service supplied by the carriage service provider.

      amending instrument, in relation