Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications has notified the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of a number of access disputes under Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act 1974.

The disputes relate to Telstra's supply of the Digital Data Access Service to Macquarie, the price to be paid by Macquarie to Telstra for the supply of the DDAS and the terms and conditions associated with such supply.

Accordingly, the ACCC has commenced an arbitration hearing.

Given that the legislation contemplates that arbitrations be conducted in private, the ACCC will not be making any public comment at this stage.