Telecommunications Act 1997

If a designated radiocommunications facility is used, or is for use, to supply a carriage service between a point in Australia and one or more other points in Australia, the facility is a network unit.

It does not matter whether the supply involves:

the use of a satellite; or

the use of a line or other facility outside Australia.

For the purposes of this section, a point includes a mobile or potentially mobile point, whether on land, underground, in the atmosphere, in outer space, underwater, at sea or anywhere else.

For the purposes of this section, a point that is:

in the atmosphere; and

in or below the stratosphere; and

above Australia;

For the purposes of this section, a point that is:

on a satellite; and

above the stratosphere;