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ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead
The ACCC has cleared, provisionally, the proposed deal between Optus and NBN Co under which Optus is to be paid around $800m to shut down its HFC network and transfer customers onto the NBN. read moreACCC reveals pricing decisions on Optus' mobile termination
Stuart Corner
Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:25
The access seekers are: Hutchison Telecoms, (which operates its Orange CDMA service), Hutchison 3G, and PowerTel.
The interim determinations set an initial price for the MTAS of 18 cents per minute, decreasing to 15 cents per minute on 1 January 2006 for the remainder of the 12 month period following the date of the determination. H
The determinations were made in July and August of this year. Their publication follows consolation with the parties involved.
The prices set are identical with those imposed on Vodafone in the ACCC's recently released arbitrations in several access disputes with that carrier.
The Domestic Mobile Terminating Access Service is a wholesale input, used by providers of fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile calls. It allows consumers (either fixed-line or mobile) to call mobile users connected to another network. The carrier whose customer initiates the call pays the carrier whose customer receives the call for the mobile terminating access service.
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