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Telstra (Transition to Full Private Ownership) Act 2005
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(1) The Parliament re‑affirms its intention: (a) that all people in Australia, wherever they reside or carry on business, will continue to have reasonable access, on an equitable basis, to standard telephone services, payphones and digital data services; and (b) that: (i) the universal service obligation described in section 9 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999; and (ii) the digital data service obligation described in section 10 of that Act; should be fulfilled as efficiently and economically as practicable. (2) An expression used in this section and in Part 2 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 has the same meaning in this section as it has in that Part.