ACCC receives formal notification from G9 consortium
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has received formal notification from the G9 consortium of telecommunications companies that the G9 consortium is withdrawing the special access undertaking as lodged by it with the ACCC on 30 May 2007. The special access undertaking sets out proposed terms and conditions of third party access to a fibre-to-the-node network.
On 17 December 2007, the ACCC issued a draft decision on the special access undertaking. As the special access undertaking has now been formally withdrawn, the ACCC will not proceed to a final decision on the terms and conditions proposed in the undertaking.
In its letter to the ACCC withdrawing the special access undertaking, the G9 advised that it intends to lodge a replacement special access undertaking that addresses the issues raised by the ACCC in its draft decision.
The formal notification was received by the ACCC from FANOC Pty Ltd, a company created by the G9 consortium that has put forward a proposal for a fibre-to-the-node broadband access network.
On 30 May 2007, FANOC lodged a special access undertaking under the Trade Practices Act 1974 with the ACCC.
