Links—Telecommunications technology, installation of infrastructure, damage to property & electromagnetic energy

Mobile networks & technology

• Going mobile: your network options (ACMA factsheet)
• Mobile phone technology & special features (ACMA)
• 3G: Third generation networks in Australia (Mobile Carriers Forum)
• Telstra's transition from a CDMA to Next G mobile network (ACMA)
• Short history of mobile technologies in Australia (AMTA)

TIO position statements

• Access to inspect, install and maintain low impact facilities
• Installation authorised by occupier not owner of premises
• Recovery of costs of repairs to cable damaged by owners/occupiers

Other links

Dial before you dig - Australia's national referral service for information on underground pipes and cables

Law/regulations about low impact telecommunications infrastructure (underground cabling, small antennas and radiocommunications dishes NOT mobile towers)

• Schedule 3 of the Telecommunications Act 1997
• Telecommunications (Low-Impact Facilities) Determination 1997 (Amendment No. 1 of 1999)
• Telecommunications Code of Practice 1997 (Amendment No. 1 of 2002), includes notice requirements & object procedure
• Industry codes of practice on the Communications Alliance website:
  • ACIF C524:2004 External Telecommunication Cable Networks
  • ACIF C564:2004 Deployment of Mobile Phone Network Infrastructure

Consumer/community information about installation of telecommunications infrastructure from the Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA)

• On the ACMA factsheets page look for:
  • Installation of telecommunications facilities—a guide for consumers
  • Installation of telecommunications facilities—a guide for local government
  • Placement of mobile phone towers
  • The mobile phone network infrastructure code and local government
  • Wireless local area and metropolitan networks and the Deployment of Mobile Phone Network Infrastructure Code
  • Telecommunications cabling in buildings with a high voltage electrical supply
  • Electromagnetic energy (EME)
  • Mobile base stations and EME

Electromagnetic emissions (from infrastructure & handsets)

• ACMA's pages on Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & safety
• Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
• www.who.int - World Health Organisation
• Equipment standards & labelling (ACMA)
• Health & mobile phones (Mobile Manufacturers Association)

Last updated: September 2007