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Telecommunications ISPs claim Comms Alliance hijacked by Telstra over LSS-ULLS migration
Telecommunications ISPs claim Comms Alliance hijacked by Telstra over LSS-ULLS migration | ISPs claim Comms Alliance hijacked by Telstra over LSS-ULLS migration |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 18 August 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Comms Alliance dismissed Dalby's assertion that Telstra had unduly influenced the roundtable. A spokesman told iTWire: "The governance arrangements for Communications Alliance provide that all members regardless of size or other characteristic have one vote each, and all directors regardless of size or other characteristic have one vote each. It is not possible in these circumstances for the interests of any one particular member to be represented at the expense of others.""It proves that Telstra won't voluntarily cooperate with the industry in the operation of Declared services (LSS and ULLS), even after the high court judgement handed down 7-0 against Telstra in recent months made their obligations extremely clear." Hackett added: "All that CA came up with were excuses to justify Telstra not wanting to do it. Its obvious why Telstra doesn't want to do it - it allows customers to exercise commercial freedom of choice to dispose of their dial tone efficiently, and that is something that is clearly against the Telstra religion. Indeed, the retail price rises in the provision of dial tone in the last week by Telstra underscore that its a cash cow - and the milking of it continues to gain momentum even as the competitive industry is offering customers new ways to work." Hackett also took dig at Telstra over its recent decision to allow People Telecom to wholesale its ADSL2+ services (the first company able to so.) Hackett said: "We also fear a similar outcome with Telstra Wholesale ADSL2+ access, where we hope that Telstra proves the veracity of its NBN related rhetoric about 'open' access to wholesale high speed broadband services. In that context, as with the LSS to ULLS churn context, we call upon Telstra not to play favourites, and to offer that service to all access seekers, not just to those without their own ADSL2+ build strategy [ie People Telecom]." The only other submission released so far by the ACCC, from TPG CFO, Alan Latimer, was much less critical. "We are in agreement with most of the facts and proposed improvements noted in the Communications Alliance report," Latimer said. However he did call for "the development of systems and processes that would enable end users or their acquirers to migrate between ULL and LSS with nil or little impact on the end user," and said that the supposition about take up of migration in the report "do not provide sufficient reason for suggesting only minor improvements to the process."
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