[LINK] Share phone and broadband on a housing estate?

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Tom,

> I had in mind the equipment would go in the coop's own telecommunications 
> cabinet (or a server cabinet next to it). The cabinet in the basement of my 
> apartment building has a Transact fibre optic node the size of a large 
> suitcase <http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/sa/bauhaus.html#Transact>. This seems 
> a bit over engineered, with enough bandwidth for the residents to run the 
> country from our lounge rooms.

My consideration here would still be liability more than anything else, for anyone wishing to provide the first-line phone. 

As an Internet service offering a "second line" VoIP, there is no particular regulatory problem. 

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> 
> Yes. The rules talk about a "body corporate" being exempt 
> <https://www.aca.gov.au/aca_home/licensing/telcomm/app_form/guicarlc.htm>. 
> So this might apply to an ordinary apartment block, as well as a coop. An 
> apartment's "body corporate" is a coop for capitalists. ;-)

Yes, but you will still have to find some way to:
1) terminate outbound calls (ie, buy PSTN access); and
2) support incoming geographical numbers.

While the "500m rule" means skipping the carrier license (assuming there are no other behaviours to turn the operation into a carrier), (1) above means the service is reselling a carriage service. So you will have to take out TIO membership.

And don't forget intercept. It has to be supported no matter what ...

RC

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