I think you'll find that while the requirement for approved equipment
has been removed from statute law, Telecom's terms of service say quite
explictly that only approved equipment may be attached to their network.

I doubt that Telecom are alone in this.

As such, while the Telecommunications Act bullshit is probably just
trying to sound heavy handed, it's still illegal to attach unapproved
equipment to Telecom's network. It's just that it's a civil matter, not
a criminal one.

-- don

"Philip D'Ath" <pid@ifm.net.nz> wrote:
> Just reading www.legislation.govt.nz.
>
> The Telecommunications Act 1987 was amended by the
>Telecommunications Act 1997, at which time section 6 (mentioned below) was
>repealed.
>
> This was consequently amended by the Telecommunications Act 2001.
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but I can't see anything in the act that says you
>must gain the permission of the network operator before plugging something
>in, and in particular, I can find no reference to the text "no person shall
>connect anything to a telecommunications network without the agreement of
>the network operator" - the only reference I can find is that this section
>has been repealed and is no longer law.
>
> Looks like a bold face lie on Telecom's WWW site to me ...
>
>
>Philip D'Ath
>http://www.ifm.net.nz/

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