17Requirements on transiting telecommunications providers

17 Requirements on transiting telecommunications providers

This section applies to a participating telecommunications provider that is a transiting telecommunications provider. Subject to subsections (3) and (4), the provider must not transit a sender identification message unless:

the telecommunications provider sending the message; and the telecommunications provider to which the provider transits the message

are participating telecommunications providers.

Subsection (2) does not apply where a sender identification message is sent to a mobile number that is connected with a carriage service that is an international mobile roaming service.

Note: For example, subsection (3) will apply where an individual, with a mobile number that was issued in Australia, is using an international mobile roaming service. The transiting provider in this scenario will be the Australian mobile network operator of the network that the international roaming customer’s service is connected to when in Australia. Messages from an international telecommunications service provider

Despite subsection (2), if a sender identification message is received by the provider from an international telecommunications service provider – the provider is permitted to transit the message if the provider has disrupted the message.