AUSTRALIA: NETWORK PERFORMANCE LEVELS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.4. TBT/NOTIF. 94.487. 1. Party to Agreement notifying: AUSTRALIA. 2. Agency responsible: AUSTEL (Australian Telecommunications Authority). 3. Notified under Article 2.5.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Network performance levels. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: TS 027: ``End to End Network Performance'' (26 pages). 6. Description of content: This Technical Standard applies to the performance of networks involved in the carriage of calls from one ordinary telephone service within Australia to another. 7. Objective and rationale: To establish an overall performance standard so that as more networks enter the market through competition, the overall level of performance offered to the Australian public does not decrease. 8. Relevant documents: AUSTEL Standards TS 003, TS 009, TS 011, TS 012, Private Network Design Guide and AUSTEL National Numbering Plan - April 1994, Purple Book. Australian Standards AS 1000. CCITT IXth Plenary Assembly, Melbourne, November, 1988 (Blue Book). Vol. II - Fascicle II.3 (E.422, E.800 and E.845), Vol III - Fascicle III.I (G.103, G.113 and G.121), Vol IV (P.10) and Vol VI - Fascicle VI.I (Q.29, Q.45, Q.543, Q.551, Q.552, and M.1040). ITU-T Recommendations, Geneva 1992. E.430, E.431, E.432, E.434 and E.435. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: Mid 1995. 10. Final date for comments: 27 February 1995. (004)

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