55Objects

##### 55 Objects The objects of this Part are to help achieve the objects of this Act by: (a) establishing a system for licensing general carriers, on the basis that they are to be: (i) the primary providers of Australia’s line-based and satellite-based public telecommunications capacity; and (ii) the primary suppliers of telecommunications services by the use of line links and satellite-based facilities; and (b) establishing a system for licensing mobile carriers, on the basis that they are to be the primary suppliers of public mobile telecommunications services; and (c) providing for a Code of Practice that: (i) relates to dealings by carriers with international telecommunications operators and with other persons; and (ii) is to operate, together with the class licence system established by Part 10, to prevent the misuse of market power by international telecommunications operators; and (d) providing for accounting separation of the various business activities of each carrier, in order to: (i) identify cross-subsidisation between business activities that do not face strong competition and those that do; and (ii) encourage each carrier to improve each of the main parts of its business; and (e) providing for a customer service guarantee that requires carriers to comply with certain performance standards.