Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:07

NBN Co wants ACCC approval for variations to Special Access Undertakings

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NBN Co wants to vary its special access undertakings (SAU) to include fibre-to-the-node, fibre-to-the-basement and hybrid fibre coaxial technologies to which the SAU will apply.

The SAU governs the price, terms and conditions under which NBN Co will supply wholesale services over the national broadband network and the company has asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to vary the SAU which has been in operation since it was accepted by the ACCC in December 2013.

The ACCC published the NBN Co’s proposed variations on Tuesday and has invited submissions giving feedback on the variations, to be submitted by 26 August.

ACCC commissioner Cristina Cifuentes said that although fibre-to-the-node, fibre-to-the-basement and hybrid fibre coaxial are not currently reflected in the SAU, NBN Co has so far been offering these services in a way that is “consistent with the SAU” which provides an overarching framework for the regulation of access to the NBN.

“The SAU currently does not capture the additional network technologies that NBN Co has introduced since the SAU was accepted. NBN Co is now seeking to address this through the SAU variation.”

NBN Co wants to formalise the arrangements that are currently in operation but have not yet been incorporated into the SAU.

The company has also proposed a number of other changes to the SAU through the variation, including changes to the nature and extent of rollout progress information that it would be obliged to provide to NBN access seekers, as well as minor changes to dispute resolution arrangements.

NBN Co now wants to publish rollout progress only in its yearly construction plan rather than in quarterly updates currently published and released publically.

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Peter Dinham

Peter Dinham - retired in 2020. He is a veteran journalist and corporate communications consultant. He has worked as a journalist in all forms of media – newspapers/magazines, radio, television, press agency and now, online – including with the Canberra Times, The Examiner (Tasmania), the ABC and AAP-Reuters. As a freelance journalist he also had articles published in Australian and overseas magazines. He worked in the corporate communications/public relations sector, in-house with an airline, and as a senior executive in Australia of the world’s largest communications consultancy, Burson-Marsteller. He also ran his own communications consultancy and was a co-founder in Australia of the global photographic agency, the Image Bank (now Getty Images).

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