Fixed Services Review – Declaration Inquiry Public inquiry into the fixed line services declarations Draft Report December 2013
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- The WLR and LCS service descriptions should be amended to remove CBD exemptions
- The WLR, LCS and PSTN OA service descriptions should be amended to exclude regulation of resale services over the NBN
- Interconnection services
Service descriptionsThe ACCC’s proposed service descriptions for WLR, LCS and PSTN OA are contained in appendices C, D and E respectively. The ACCC notes that the specific amendments it is proposing to make to the PSTN OA service description, relating to pre-selection and override, are discussed in this section. The other amendments that the ACCC is proposing to make to the PSTN OA service description are discussed in section 6.4 of this paper. The WLR and LCS service descriptions should be amended to remove CBD exemptionsAs discussed in section 5.3.3, the ACCC considers that the provisions that give effect to CBD exemptions should be removed from the WLR and LCS service descriptions. Therefore the ACCC is proposing to remove the following provisions. WLRexcept where the supply of the line rental telephone service is within the Central Business District Area of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Central Business District Area means the exchange service areas that are classified as CBD for the purposes of the ordering and provisioning procedures set out in the Telstra Ordering and Provisioning Manual as in force on the date of effect of the declaration. LCShowever, the local carriage service does not include services where the supply of the local carriage service originates from an exchange located within a Central Business District Area of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth and terminates within the standard zone which encompasses the originating exchange Central Business District Area means the exchange service areas that are classified as CBD for the purposes of the ordering and provisioning procedures set out in the Telstra Ordering and Provisioning Manual as in force on the date of effect of the renewed declaration. The WLR, LCS and PSTN OA service descriptions should be amended to exclude regulation of resale services over the NBNAs discussed in section 5.3.2, the ACCC considers that resale services should not be regulated where voice services are being provided using NBN infrastructure. To give effect to this intention, the ACCC has included the following provision in its proposed WLR and LCS service descriptions: except where the connectivity between the end-user and the public switched telephone network is provided in whole or in part by means of a layer 2 bitstream service that is supplied by an NBN corporation. Layer 2 bitstream service has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1997. NBN corporation has the same meaning as in the National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011. The ACCC notes Telstra’s submission that the scope of the WLR, LCS and pre-selection and override functionality of PSTN OA should be restricted to the PSTN.202 The ACCC considers that, on the information available to it at this time, regulation of resale services should only be excluded over NBN-based voice networks. To give effect to the ACCC’s draft report not to regulate PSTN OA (pre-selection and override) services provided using NBN infrastructure, the ACCC is proposing to include the following provisions in its proposed PSTN OA service description: Pre-selection and code override services are not declared where the connectivity between the end-user and the public switched telephone network is provided in whole or in part by means of a Layer 2 bitstream service that is supplied by an NBN corporation. Layer 2 bitstream service has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1997. NBN corporation has the same meaning as in the National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011. public switched telephone network is a telephone network accessible by the public providing switching and transmission facilities using analogue and digital technologies. The ACCC notes that other interconnection services, that is, the PSTN TA and PSTN OA (special numbers) services, will still be regulated with respect to the NBN, as discussed in chapter 6.4 of this paper. Interconnection services
Interconnection is the handover of telephone calls and data traffic between telecommunications network operators. Through interconnection arrangements, network operators provide end-users with access to other end-users, services or content on other networks. The presently declared PSTN TA service involves the carriage of telephone calls, by the access provider, from a point of interconnection (POI) with the access seeker’s network to the party receiving the call. The presently declared PSTN OA service performs two functions:
PSTN TA and the special numbers functionality of PSTN OA are interconnection services and are discussed in this chapter. As pre-selection and override services are typically purchased together with other resale services, these functions of PSTN OA are discussed with other resale services in chapter 5. Directory: system -> files files -> Haiti Relief – esf 15 Support Organization Situation Report # 17 1/28/10 files -> Haiti Relief – esf 15 Support Organization Situation Report # 16 1/27/10 files -> Right to Carbon or Right to Life: Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change files -> Enhancing interactive learning in the classroom with Turning Point files -> Curriculum vita files -> - files -> Acknowledgements files -> Nw, Washington D. C 20037 Telephone: (202)884-1080, (202)939-6125/7 files -> Grey-headed Flying-fox Management Strategy for the Lower Hunter Grey-headed Flying-fox Download 0.57 Mb. Share with your friends:
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