18Eligible services

##### 18 Eligible services (1) Subject to this section, a telecommunications service that is supplied by means of: (a) at least one reserved line link; or (b) facilities including at least one reserved line link; is an eligible service. (2) Subject to this section, a telecommunications service: (a) between distinct places within Australia; or (b) between places within Australia and places outside Australia; that is supplied by the use of satellite-based facilities is an eligible service. (3) A telecommunications service (other than a public mobile telecommunications service or a public access cordless telecommunications service) that is supplied by a general carrier is not an eligible service. (4) A public mobile telecommunications service that is supplied by a mobile carrier is not an eligible service. (5) The fact that subsection (3) or (4) prevents a telecommunications service of a particular kind from being an eligible service because it is supplied by a general carrier or a mobile carrier, as the case may be, must be disregarded in determining whether a telecommunications service of that kind that is supplied by a person other than such a carrier is an eligible service because of subsection (1) or (2).