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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 353

Use of over - ride dial codes

  (1)   This section applies to a carriage service provider (the first provider ) if:

  (a)   the first provider supplies a carriage service that involves the use of a controlled network, or a controlled facility, of a carrier, of the first provider or of another carriage service provider; and

  (b)   in accordance with a determination under section   349, the network or facility, as the case may be, provides over - ride dial codes for selecting alternative carriage service providers on a call - by - call basis.

  (2)   Unless, in the ACMA's opinion:

  (a)   it would not be technically feasible; or

  (b)   it would impose unreasonable financial hardship on the first provider;

the first provider must take such steps as are necessary to ensure that each end - user of the carriage service is able to make use of those codes for selecting alternative carriage service providers on a call - by - call basis.

  (3)   The requirement in subsection   (2) does not, by implication, prevent an alternative carriage service provider from refusing to supply a carriage service to the end - user concerned.

 


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