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Telecommunications Act 2001

Networks - Access to property, involving rights of multiple parties, to deploy fibre optic media and other technology - Consumer complaints system

155L: Particular preconditions before exercising statutory right of access to carry out category 2 installation

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"Before letting someone into your property to install fibre, they must give you notice and a plan."

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Before you let an FTTP service provider or a network operator into your property to do a category 2 installation, they must give you a preliminary notice and a high-level design plan. This plan must have the information described in section 155M. They must give this notice and plan to you and the person who ordered the FTTP service. They must also not have received an objection from you under section 155N. This rule does not apply if you live in a body corporate administered property, which is explained in section 155R.

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Access to property, involving rights of multiple parties, to deploy fibre optic media and other technology: Consumer complaints system

155LParticular preconditions before exercising statutory right of access to carry out category 2 installation

  1. Before an FTTP service provider or a network operator enters a property and carries out a category 2 installation under this subpart, the service provider or network operator must—

  2. first give a preliminary notice and a high-level design plan of the installation that set out the information described in section 155M to—
    1. each affected person; and
      1. the person who placed the order with a retail provider for the FTTP service to be installed; and
      2. not have received an objection under section 155N from any affected person.

        1. This section does not apply to a category 2 installation in a body corporate administered property (see section 155R).

        Notes
        • Section 155L: replaced, on , by section 13 of the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 16).