Primus Telecommunications (Australia) Pty Ltd has notified the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of three separate access disputes under Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
The disputes relate to the price paid by Primus for Domestic GSM Originating and Terminating Access Services* supplied by means of the mobile networks operated by Telstra, Optus and Vodafone. These services can be used to supply 13 and 1800 call services to mobile users and to provide fixed to mobile calls.
The ACCC has commenced separate arbitration processes for each of these access disputes.
Given that the legislation contemplates that arbitrations be conducted in private the ACCC will not be making any public comment at this stage.
*Originating access and terminating access are services whereby calls are passed from one network to another network. In these three case, the disputes relate to the charges for carrying that portion of a call which originates or terminates (as the case may be) on each of Telstra's, Optus's and Vodafone's mobile GSM networks.
