107Benefits for customers outside standard zones

#### 107 Benefits for customers outside standard zones (1) For the purposes of this section, if a customer of a carriage service provider is in Australia, but is not in a standard zone, the customer is a designated customer. (2) The regulations may formulate a scheme to give benefits to designated customers, where the benefits: (a) relate to charges for calls made using a standard telephone service supplied to the customer; and (b) are comparable to the benefits given to eligible customers under section 104 (which deals with the requirement to provide an untimed local call option). (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a comparison of benefits is to have regard to (among other things), the ability to make calls to essential business and community services on an untimed basis. (4) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (2) may impose requirements on carriage service providers. (5) A carriage service provider must comply with any applicable requirements imposed by regulations made for the purposes of subsection (2). (7) For the purposes of this section, charges for particular calls are worked out on an untimed basis if, and only if, the charges for those calls are worked out by reference to the number of such calls made during a particular period, regardless of how long each call lasted.