On February 25, 2015, ACMA has made a number of important changes to the existing regulatory arrangements. These include:
- Reducing the number of categories used to describe the applicable standard and record keeping requirements for specified customer equipment.
- Increasing the scope for suppliers to rely on overseas compliance documentation to demonstrate compliance with Australia requirements.
- Reducing record keeping requirements for customer equipment used in the supply of a public mobile telecommunications service (PMTS), where the equipment is not used for voice telephony.
- Removing ACMA technical standards that no longer have any regulatory effect, or are no longer required due to technological obsolescence.
- Introducing ACMA technical standards that give effect to new or revised referenced Communications Alliance or Standards Australia industry technical standards upon the date of publication of the industry standard.
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