Draft report20 Dec 2023
On 20 December 2023, the ACCC released a draft report about the combined declaration inquiry in relation to the following 9 declared services:
- Domestic mobile terminating access service.
- Domestic transmission capacity service.
- Wholesale line rental.
- Local carriage service.
- Fixed originating access service.
- Fixed terminating access service.
- Wholesale Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL).
- Unconditional local loop service.
- Line sharing service.
The ACCC is proposing to:
- Extend the declaration of the domestic mobile terminating access service for a further 5 years and vary the service description. Proposed variations include reference to termination to a mobile number rather than a digital mobile network and the inclusion of application-to-person (A2P) SMS termination.
- Extend the declaration of the domestic transmission capacity service for a further 5 years and vary the service description. Proposed variations intend to reflect technological changes since the last declaration inquiry.
- Extend the declarations of the wholesale line rental, local carriage service, wholesale ADSL, fixed originating and terminating access services for a further 5 years with no variations to the service description.
- Allow the declarations of the unconditioned local loop and line sharing services to expire without making a new declaration.
The ACCC invited submissions in response to the draft report by 5 pm AEST Friday 16 February 2024.
Submissions
Additional submissions on FTAS/FOAS service description changes
In March 2024, the ACCC invited comments on proposed amendments to the service descriptions for the fixed voice interconnection services from stakeholders who had previously submitted on fixed voice interconnection services.