73Continued access to untimed calls made using the standard telephone service

##### 73 Continued access to untimed calls made using the standard telephone service (1) This section applies where: (a) at the commencement of this section, Telecom supplies, or offers to supply, to persons within a particular area within Australia, a telecommunications service that is at that commencement the standard telephone service; and (b) under the terms and conditions on which Telecom supplies, or would supply, that service to persons in that area, the charges for calls of a particular kind made using the service are, or would be, worked out by reference to the number of such calls made during a particular period, regardless of how long each call lasted. (2) A general carrier must not supply a standard telephone service to a customer in that area except on terms and conditions under which: (a) the customer may choose, on connection of the service, to have the charges for calls of that kind that are made using the service worked out as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b); and (b) if the customer chooses as mentioned in paragraph (a), the carrier must not work out the charges for such calls in any other way except with the customer’s written consent; and (c) if the customer: (i) does not choose as mentioned in paragraph (a); or (ii) consents to having the charges for such calls worked out otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b); the customer may later give the carrier a written notice to the effect that the customer wishes the charges for such calls to be worked out as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b); and (d) if the customer gives the carrier such a notice, the carrier: (i) must, in respect of the earliest practicable period beginning after it receives the notice, work out the charges for such calls as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b); and (ii) must not, in respect of a period after the period referred to in subparagraph (i), work out the charges for such calls in any other way except with the customer’s written consent. (3) In this section: > Australia does not include the prescribed external Territories.