Draft decision12 Sep 2006
The ACCC released its draft decision to reject the undertaking in September 2006.
ACCC draft decision
Extension of decision making period
Submissions for consideration in final decision
Confidential submissions
The ACCC received nine confidential witness statements from Telstra dated 11, 18 and 31 August and 5 September (received in September 2006) and 13, 15, 27, 29 and 29 September 2006 (all received on 20 October 2006). Public versions of all but the 31 August statement have been provided by Telstra.
Optus submitted the following documents from previous processes to the ACCC for consideration in the ACCC's final decision:
- Optus, Submission to ACCC on tender for cost model of fixed network services, September 06.
- Optus, Submission to ACCC on Telstra's undertaking for domestic PSTN OTA, ULLS and LCS, March 04.
- Optus, Submission to ACCC on Telstra's undertaking for LCS is anti-competitive, March 04.
- Optus, Submission to ACCC on rural PSTN costs in Telstra's undertakings, March 04.
- NERA, Estimating Telstra's avoidable retail costs for local calls and basic access - a report for Optus, August 03.
- NERA, Competitive neutrality in access pricing—a report for Optus, July 03.
- NERA, Role of TSLRIC in telecommunications regulation - a report for Optus, July 03.
Optus also provided confidential information to the ACCC on traffic volumes on 17 November 2006.