In many of the older complexes the muncipal responsibility literally ends at the front gate, thereafter all services become the responsibility of the body corp.
In essence here, is not a muncipal boundry though, as throwing a phone line over your wall to a neighbour consitutes an illegal activity.
This may apply in complexes as well, however, since the property is termed (common) and owned by the body corp. of which you are a member, technically you are remianing within property which you either own or are part owner of.
The problem here though is that when you plug your neighbour in, you've crossed a boundry, the question now....
does a transfer from you to common property to someone else consitute a violation?
well you have a holding in the common property and so does your neighbour, and thus is could be argued that at no point does it actualy cross a boundry where at least one person has holdings in at least two sections.
in essence, it's like throwing a cable over a wall in which you have holdings in both properties, you haven't broken the law because the cable remains in your property.
So what's wrong with the above though, the body corp. is providing a communications service that is essentially a PSTN within your complex and this is where a law is broken. My view, if their is no hookup to Telkom for calls and only data traverses with Telkom/SNO being used for the data portion then it's probably arguably legal, calls would probably be too if users could not connect directly in a point to point config.
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