Undertaking application6 Oct 2005

Foxtel lodged an SAU with the ACCC under s. 152CBA of the Act related to the terms and conditions of access to Foxtel’s digital set top unit service.

Foxtel application documents

Confidential submissions

Foxtel has claimed confidentiality with respect to the following attachments (or parts thereof) to its submission:

  • attachment 2: Bill McDonald, Australian Spectrum Consultants Pty Ltd—Report on Satellite Amendments [Part confidential]
  • attachment 3: Confidential Statement of Peter Campbell regarding the terms of FOXTEL's digital content agreements [Confidential]
  • attachment 4: Henry Ergas, Charles River & Associates: Reasonableness of Limiting the Supply of FOXTEL's Conditional Access Service [Part confidential]
  • attachment 6: Philip Williams—Frontier Economics: Report on Market Definition and Promotion of Competition [Part confidential]
  • attachment 8: DN Ridehalgh, PricewaterhouseCoopers: Report on Cable IBAC Cost Schedules dated 13 July 2005 [Part Confidential]
  • attachment 9: DN Ridehalgh, PricewaterhouseCoopers: Report on Satellite IBAC Cost Schedules dated 13 July 2005 [Part confidential]
  • attachment 10: DN Ridehalgh, PricewaterhouseCoopers: Independent Audit Report on the Schedule of Gross Capital Purchase Costs of Satellite Set Top Units (STUs) dated 13 July 2005 [Part confidential]
  • attachment 11: Maria Martin, PricewaterhouseCoopers: Report on Gross Purchase Cost of Cable Set Top Units dated 19 January 2001 [Part confidential]
  • attachment 12: DN Ridehalgh, PricewaterhouseCoopers: Independent Review Report on FOXTEL's Digital Regulatory Accounting Procedures Manual dated 13 July 2005 [Part confidential]
  • attachment 13: DN Ridehalgh, PricewaterhouseCoopers: Independent Audit Report on FOXTEL's Digital Access Pricing Model dated 13 May 2005, version 6, for the T1 period dated 13 July 2005 [Part confidential]
  • attachment 15: Stephen Gray, SFG Consulting: A Beta Estimate for FOXTEL [Part Confidential]
  • attachment 16: Mark Ettridge, Market Ridge Pty Ltd: Final Report, Consultancy Report to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Subscriber Management and Conditional Access Systems dated 19 December 2001 [Part confidential]
  • attachment 19: Folder of statements in relation to market definition [Confidential]

The following attachments to Foxtel’s submission are available on the ACCC website:

  • Full version: attachments 1, 5, 7, 14 , 17 and 18
  • Part confidential: attachments 2, 4, 6, 8–13, 15 and 16

Attachments 3 and 19 (confidential) are not available on the ACCC website.

Also included is a submission from Foxtel on the interaction of the proposed SAU, should it be accepted by the ACCC, and the existing section 87B digital access undertaking.

See Access to confidential materials