On 23 November 2010, the ACCC issued a Position Paper announcing its proposed domestic benchmarking approach to transmission pricing. The proposed approach is based on the domestic benchmarking of prices on competitive transmission routes and supplemented by information from service providers and other sources. It follows the ACCC’s public consultation on DTCS pricing in 2010. The ACCC Position Paper on pricing the DTCS is also available.
During 2003-04, the ACCC conducted a public consultation on pricing principles for the DTCS, releasing its final report in September 2004. In the final report, the ACCC made pricing principles for the DTCS but did not set indicative prices.
The ACCC released the final version of the telecommunications transmission cost model in April 2008. The model was designed with the flexibility to calculate cost-based pricing for backhaul on any land based (terrestrial) or under sea (submarine) telecommunications transmission route in Australia.
