ACCC receives notification of telecommunications access disputes
May 30, 2006
Two access disputes have been notified to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission under Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
Optus Networks Pty Limited and Optus Mobile Pty Limited have notified the ACCC of two access disputes, one with Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd and the other with Hutchison 3G Australia Pty Ltd.
These two access disputes relate to the price paid by Optus for the Domestic Mobile Terminating Access Service* supplied by HTAL and H3GA.
The ACCC has commenced the arbitration processes for 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.
*The Domestic Mobile Terminating Access Service is a wholesale input, used by providers of fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile calls, to allow their customers to call mobile phone users. It allows consumers (either fixed-line or mobile) to call mobile users connected to another network. The carrier whose customer initiates the call pays the carrier whose customer receives the call for the mobile terminating access service. The disputes relate to the charges, and other terms and conditions, for carrying that portion of a call which terminates on HTAL's mobile network and H3GA's mobile network.
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