This afternoon FANOC Pty Limited (FANOC) lodged a special access undertaking with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission under s. 152CBA of the Trade Practices Act 1974.

FANOC is a company formed by the G9 Consortium of telecommunications companies. The special access undertaking relates to the terms and conditions of access to FANOC's prospective fibre-to-the-node Broadband Access Service. The special access undertaking will be available on the ACCC website. 

The ACCC will issue a discussion paper on FANOC's special access undertaking shortly. 

Once the discussion paper is published on its website the ACCC will begin a public consultation process in accordance with its standard practices for assessing undertakings.