Under Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act the ACCC is responsible for arbitrating disputes about access to particular declared services and also for assessing access undertakings relating to access to such declared services. One of the prime issues that arises under these processes is the determination of an appropriate access price.
To improve information available to the market the ACCC has developed broad pricing principles for many declared services that indicate the pricing methodology the ACCC would be likely to adopt if notified of a dispute in the supply of that particular declared service. Under s. 152AB of the Act the ACCC has determined model price terms and conditions, which provide indicative prices for 'core' telecommunications services.
Access pricing papers for specific services are listed below.
During 2008, the ACCC conducted a public consultation on indicative prices for ULLS. At the conclusion of the review, the ACCC released amended pricing principles and indicative prices to apply through to July 2009.
During 2008, the ACCC conducted a public consultation on pricing principles and indicative prices for the LCS and WLR service. At the conclusion of the review, the ACCC released pricing principles and indicative prices for the LCS and WLR service to apply through to July 2009.
In 2007, as part of its Strategic review of the regulation of fixed network services, the ACCC issued pricing principles and indicative prices for the LSS, and pricing principles for the ULLS.
The transmission capacity service is a generic service that can be used for transmitting voice, data or other communications between transmission points located throughout Australia.
