Note: All references to CDMA in ACIF/Communications Alliance documents are no longer valid post 28 April 2008.
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To help you understand what Communications Alliance does and the way it achieves its outcomes. |
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Communications Alliance recognises that a strong compliant culture builds robust businesses. A culture of compliance equates with sound corporate governance, which in turn supports sustainable business practices, long-term shareholder value and customer satisfaction. This page contains information about the Code Administration and Compliance Scheme, and tools to assist organizations in their code compliance programs. |
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Communications Alliance creates Industry Codes that define good industry practice. In many cases these Codes are enforceable by the Australian government regulators. |
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Guidelines are documents with which compliance is voluntary (although they may be enforceable through reference to the Guideline in a contract or through adoption by a regulator). They cover a range of industry topics including consumer, operational and technical matters. |
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Standards cover a range of technical topics. Most of them define the technical parameters of "Customer Equipment" e.g. phones, modems, PBXs. |
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Specifications are usually voluntary documents that are technical in nature. They are mainly used for the connecting together of telecommunications networks. |
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In the course of preparation of a Standard Code or Guideline, a draft is released for public comment. Here is list of current drafts that are available for public comment. |
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These suites of publications group together documents and lists that relate to particular topics such as local number portability (LNP), mobile number portability (MNP), the unconditioned local loop (ULL, used for DSL services) and pre-selection. |
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Communications Alliance maintains a number of public and restricted lists for use by the telecommunications industry. These lists assist in the smooth operation of industry processes such as the transfer of billing information and the porting of numbers. |
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The listed documents have been classified as "available superseded" which is used for documents that, while not entirely up-to-date, contain relevant/useful information (and therefore should not be withdrawn), but are not considered sufficiently important for industry to dedicate resources to revise/amend. Available superseded Standards are made available as they may still be called up under legislation. |
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