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Telecommunications (Prohibition of Mobile Phone Boosters) Declaration 2021
6Meaning of mobile phone booster
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6 Meaning of mobile phone booster
For the purposes of this instrument, mobile phone booster means customer equipment that:
(a) connects, by means of physical contact, with a mobile station;
(b) transmits radio emissions to, and receives radio emissions from, a base station;
(c) amplifies radio emissions transmitted to the base station;
(d) draws power from a power source;
(e) operates within one or more frequency bands used for the supply of a public mobile telecommunications service; and
(f) is not of a kind described in subsection (2).
The term mobile phone booster does not include:
customer equipment that is manufactured in Australia solely for the purpose of being exported; or
for the avoidance of doubt, a cellular mobile repeater.