Draft decision14 Oct 2016
On 14 October 2016 the ACCC released a report of its draft decision for the wholesale ADSL declaration inquiry. In the report the ACCC indicates that it intends to extend declaration of the wholesale ADSL service for five years, until 13 February 2022.
On 29 November 2016, the ACCC identified an error in the drafting of the service description included in this report and notified relevant stakeholders. The ACCC seeks to clarify that the service description being considered in the context of this inquiry is that set out in the current declaration instrument:
"The wholesale asymmetric digital subscriber line service (wholesale ADSL service) is an internet-grade, best efforts point to point service for the carriage of communications in digital form between a point of interconnection and an end-user network boundary that:
- is supplied by means of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology over a twisted metallic pair that runs from the end-user network boundary to the nearest upstream exchange or RIM or CMUX, and
- uses a static layer 2 tunnelling protocol (L2TP) over a transport layer to aggregate communications to the point of interconnection."
Draft decision on wholesale ADSL service
The ACCC invited submissions on the draft report.
Submissions were due by 5 pm on Monday, 14 November 2016. Four submissions were received.
Submissions
The ACCC received the following public submissions. Some parties also provided confidential submissions.
Information request
On 6 December 2016, the ACCC sent an information request to Telstra seeking further information to clarify its understanding of products used to facilitate the transmission of traffic between the point of interconnection (POI) and the point of presence (POP) and how they are supplied with the wholesale ADSL service. Telstra supplied the ACCC with its confidential response on 16 December 2016.
On 9 January 2017, Telstra supplied the ACCC with its public response.