The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today released its final declaration decision for the Line Sharing Service*.
"The ACCC's final decision is to regulate the LSS on a national basis until 31 July 2009. Declaration of the LSS will be in the long-term interests of end users," ACCC Chairman, Mr Graeme Samuel, said today.
"The ACCC's final view is that regulation of the LSS will promote competition in broadband markets. This will allow consumers to choose from a wider range of broadband service providers, increasing their opportunity to gain a more competitive service-price offering."
The ACCC's decision to only declare the LSS service until 31 July 2009 will allow the ACCC to next consider the regulation of the service as part of its proposed comprehensive review of fixed line services regulation that will commence in 2008.
The ACCC has also released pricing principles and indicative prices for the LSS. These indicative prices are based on analysis undertaken by the ACCC in three recent LSS arbitration final determinations.
The single connection and disconnection charges have been revised upward slightly (in the order of 50c) from those previously issued in LSS arbitration final determinations, reflecting updated cost data provided by Telstra. The 2007-08 connection charges are also scaled up, by a predicted increase in labour costs, to provide connection charges from 1 July 2008.
| Item |
Charge |
|---|---|
| LSS monthly charge
|
$2.50 per service (1 Jan 2008 to 31 Jul 2009) |
| LSS connection not made in a managed network migration |
$41.40 per connection (1 Jan 2008 until 30 Jun 2008) $43.10 per connection (1 Jul 2008 until 31 Jul 2009) |
| LSS disconnection not made in a managed network migration |
$37.10 per connection (1 Jan 2008 until 30 Jun 2008) $38.70 per disconnection (1 Jul 2008 until 31 Jul 2009) However a disconnection charge will not be payable where:
|
| LSS managed network migration - fixed amount |
$134.50 per MNM (1 Jan 2008 until 30 Jun 2008) $140.10 per MNM (1 Jul 2008 until 31 Jul 2009) |
|
LSS managed network migration - variable amount |
$30.90 per connection (1 Jan 2008 until 30 Jun 2008) $32.20 per connection (1 Jul 2008 until 31 Jul 2009) |
| LSS managed network migration - minimum charge |
$752.50 per exchange per MNM (1 Jan 2008 until 30 Jun 2008) $784.10 per exchange per MNM (1 Jul 2008 until 31 Jul 2009) |
| LSS managed network migration - disconnection charge | $0 (1 Jan 2008 to 31 Jul 2009) |