<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Per my understanding (having read the relevant sections of the Retention Act and the Telecommunications Act (the definitions are somewhat recursive, but it eventually comes down to whether you provide a service for carrying communications via electromagnetic waves - whether or not you have a carrier license). If a customer is paying you for an IP, you are required, per my reading of the legislation, to have an approved data retention plan.<br><br></div><div>(I'm not a lawyer, this is not expert opinion)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Paul Wilkins<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class=""><div></div></span>So, assuming you have a HTML capable email client, you’ll see that I’ve highlighted a bit of your quote in red.</div><div><br></div><div>The entirety of the data retention obligation applies to carriers and carriage service providers. An Internet Service Provider is a form of a carriage service provider.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are not a carrier (with a carrier license issued by ACMA), and you are not a carriage service provider (as defined by the Telecommunications Act), <i>then you have no data retention obligation.</i></div><div><br></div><div>AGD can prattle on about whatever they like, but they aren’t in charge, the legislation is. And, <i style="font-weight:bold">as you have described in your own text above,</i> the legislation only applies to carriers and carriage service providers.</div>legislation applies to them.<span class=""></span></div><br>
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