7 Aug 2015
HONG KONG TELECOMMUNICATIONS (HKT) LTD v. THE COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
- Citation
- HONG KONG TELECOMMUNICATIONS (HKT) LTD v. THE COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV144/2014
The Appeal Board has no jurisdiction under the Telecommunications Ordinance to impose a specific deadline requiring the Authority to reach a decision as part of its consequential orders under s32O(4); the Board may direct the Authority to proceed diligently and expeditiously and it held that the appeal subject matter truly engaged s7K, but s7K(3)(b) could not be established against Apple Asia because it was not a provider of a network within the statutory definition of 'customer equipment'. The Court answers Question 1 in the negative and declines to make further orders on the general proposi…