On 18 December 2007, Telstra provided the ACCC with an application for exemption from the standard access obligations in respect of supply of the unconditioned local loop service (ULLS), line sharing service (LSS), local carriage service (LCS), wholesale line rental service (WLR), and PSTN originating access service (PSTN OA) to Optus in a defined geographic area of any customer premises within 75 metres of Optus’ currently deployed HFC cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
On 11 November 2008, the ACCC issued a final decision rejecting Telstra's exemption application relating to the Optus HFC network.