13Industry codes and industry standards not to deal with certain design features and performance requirements—exception relating to next‑generation broadband services

13 Industry codes and industry standards not to deal with certain design features and performance requirements—exception relating to next‑generation broadband services

(1) For the purposes of subparagraphs 115(2)(a)(iii) and (b)(iii) of the Act, the following matters are specified: (a) interference between telecommunications systems being operated to supply any of the following: (i) next‑generation broadband services; (ii) legacy services; (iii) any other carriage services supplied over twisted pair cables; (b) the health and safety of a person operating or working on customer equipment, customer cabling, a telecommunications network or a facility that incorporates, or is used with, a next‑generation broadband service; (c) the integrity of customer equipment, customer cabling, a telecommunications network or a facility that incorporates, or is used with, a next‑generation broadband service. (2) A next‑generation broadband service is any of the following services: (a) VDSL (very high‑speed digital subscriber line); (b) VDSL2; (c) VDSL2 with vectoring; (d) G.fast; (e) a service that uses a successor technology to any other next‑generation broadband service. (3) A legacy service is any of the following services: (a) PSTN (public switched telephone network); (b) ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line); (c) ADSL2; (d) ADSL2+; (e) SHDSL (single pair high‑speed digital subscriber line); (f) ISDN (integrated services digital network); (g) another service (other than VDSL) covered by the Communications Alliance Industry Code C559:2012 “Unconditioned Local Loop Service (ULLS) Network Deployment”, as registered by the ACMA on 16 May 2012 under section 117 of the Act.