Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband) Share this | Hansard source

I move opposition amendment (5):

(5)    Clause 9, page 15 (lines 4 to 8), omit the clause, substitute:

9 Supply of eligible services to be on wholesale basis

        (1)    An NBN corporation must not supply an eligible service to another person unless the other person:

             (a)    is a carrier or a service provider; and

             (b)    will use the eligible service to supply a carriage service or a content service to the public.

        (2)    For this section, a service is supplied to the public if:

             (a)    it is used for the carriage of communications between 2 end-users, each of which is outside the immediate circle of the supplier of the service; or

             (b)    it is used for point-to-multipoint services to end users, at least one of which is outside the immediate circle of the supplier of the service.

        (3)    In this section:

immediate circle has the meaning given by section 23 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

This amendment deals with the issue of the supply of services by the NBN. I encourage the honourable members opposite not to be reactive and Pavlovian in their response here and immediately reject what I am putting to them.

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