Division 5 of Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act enables access providers to voluntarily lodge written access undertakings with the ACCC specifying the terms and conditions upon which they agree to supply a specified service. The ACCC can accept or reject the undertaking. The access provider can seek to vary an undertaking that is in force or it can withdraw the undertaking.
There are two types of undertakings. First, ordinary access undertakings, which are lodged in relation to current declared services. Second, special access undertakings which relate to services that are either not yet declared, or that the carrier does not yet supply.
G9/FANOC special access undertaking for a fibre-to-the-node network—May 2007 FANOC lodged a special access undertaking with the ACCC on 30 May 2007 in relation to the terms and conditions of access to its prospective fibre-to-the-node Broadband Access Service. FANOC is a company formed by the G9 consortium of telecommunications companies.
The ACCC draft decision is to reject Telstra's ordinary access undertaking relating to matters of pricing for its unconditioned local loop service (ULLS). The undertaking was lodged in March 2008 at the same time as Telstra withdrew its previous ULLS undertaking (dated 21 December 2007).
Foxtel lodged a special access undertaking in relation to the supply of the Digital Set Top Unit Service with the ACCC on 1 December 2006. This was following the ACCC's draft decision to reject its previous undertaking lodged with the ACCC in October 2005. The ACCC accepted the SAU in March 2007.
Final decision; submissions in response to draft decision; extension of time letter; ACCC draft decision; submissions in response to discussion paper; ACCC discussion paper; undertakings.
On 7 October 2005, Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Limited (HTAL) and Hutchison 3G Australia Pty Ltd (H3GA) (together Hutchison) lodged six ordinary access undertakings with the ACCC relating to the mobile terminating access service (MTAS).
On 26 November 2004 Vodafone lodged an ordinary access undertaking with the ACCC specifying the terms and conditions it will undertake to meet its standard access obligations to supply the mobile terminating access service (MTAS).
In December 2004 Telstra lodged undertakings proposing monthly, connection and disconnection charges for the unconditioned local loop service (ULLS) and line sharing service (LSS).
In September 2003 Telstra lodged an access undertaking with the ACCC specifying the terms and conditions upon which it undertakes to meet its standard access obligations to supply the line sharing service (LSS).
In November 1997 Telstra lodged three undertakings with the ACCC specifying the terms and conditions upon which Telstra proposed to meet its standard access obligations to supply PSTN, GSM (digital mobile) and AMPS (analogue mobile) origination and termination services.
