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.
The ACCC has commenced a public consultation on an amended pricing principles determination which now includes indicative prices for the ULLS 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.
During 2007, the ACCC conducted a public consultation on pricing principles and indicative prices for the MTAS. At the conclusion of the review, the ACCC set an indicative price of 9 cents per minute to apply for 1 July 2007 to 31 December 2008, informed by its WIK model.
