PowerTel disputes Telstra's ULL, LSS prices

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 06 June 2006 18:58

IT Policy - Regulation

PowerTel and its subsidiary, Request Broadband, have notified the ACCC of three separate access disputes with Telstra: over the price Telstra charges to supply its Line Sharing Service (LSS) to Request and the price it charges for the supply of the unconditioned local loop service (ULL) to Request and to PowerTel.
These disputes come in the wake of an Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT) decision supporting ACCC's rejection of Telstra's access undertaking proposing a $9 per month LSS price (Telstra appealed the ACCC's decision to the ACT) and a recent interim decision by the ACCC in an access dispute lodged by Chime over the ULL price

The ACCC rejected Telstra's proposed $30 per month geographically averaged price and ordered it to continue charging according to region: $13 per month in CBDs and $22 per month in other metropolitan areas.