There is no deal on ADSL2+ regulation says Conroy

Stuart Corner
Monday, 11 February 2008 03:49

IT Policy - Regulation

If anything, Telstra's announcement has elevated the calls for regulation of ADSL2+. Primus claims it faces long waits to get access to exchanges to install its DSLAMs.

Internode CEO Simon Hackett has been reported by Australian Personal Computer saying:  "Years of precedent and practice have made it clear that where Telstra offers a monopoly retail broadband service, they are required to offer it at wholesale, and at an access price that is tenable. All existing BigPond Retail services are offered as a wholesale access version to the market in accordance with the above If BigPond retails ADSL2+ to 900 exchanges as promised within a small period of time (with at least 600 of those in which they are the sole retail path for access to an ADSL2+ service), this surely demands that wholesale offering is made available."

Another ISP, Netspace has also called on Telstra to open up these exchanges to its wholesale
customers. Reminded of these concerns by Telstra's competitors, Conroy told Inside Business that "If there's a problem there then that should be rightfully taken up with the ACCC, but there is nothing stopping any of the competitors to Telstra accessing the exchanges and putting in the DSLAM technologies to create the competition."