Mobile terminating access service (MTAS)

The domestic mobile terminating access service (MTAS) is a wholesale input used by providers of fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile calls to allow their customers to call mobile subscribers. It allows consumers (either fixed line or mobile) to call mobile users. If a call made by a service provider's customer terminates on another mobile network, the service provider pays the other network's owner for the MTAS.

Declaration

The ACCC concluded its public inquiry into the declaration of the MTAS in May 2009 and extended the MTAS declaration for five years to 30 June 2014.

Pricing principles

Pricing principles are no longer applicable under the new pricing framework contained in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. Current regulated prices for the MTAS are set out in the final access determination (FAD) for the MTAS for the period 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2014. Pricing principles that applied to the MTAS prior to the MTAS FAD are available below.