Unbundled Copper Local Loop Final Pricing Principle

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On 5 February 2013 the Commission received five applications for a pricing review determination for the UCLL service under section 42 of the Telecommunications Act. The Commission is now obliged to review the UCLL prices that were set in the UCLL benchmarking review in December 2012.

The Commission will calculate the cost of the UCLL service using a forward looking cost based method. The method required by subpart 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Act is the Total Service Long Run Incremental Cost (TSLRIC). The Commission is also obliged to follow the process set out in subpart 4 of Part 2 of the Telecommunications Act in relation to the pricing review applications.

Copies of the applications for a pricing review can be found below.

Background

On 3 December 2012, the Commission released its final decision in relation to the UCLL benchmarking review. The Commission decided to set a geographically averaged UCLL monthly rental price of $23.52 coming into effect on 1 December 2014. Updated urban and non-urban UCLL monthly rental prices, of $19.08 and $35.20 respectively, were also set coming into effect immediately. New UCLL connection charges were also determined along with relevant updated prices under Unbundled Bitstream Access and Sub-loop Services Standard Terms Determinations that were affected by the UCLL benchmark data update.

Project timeline

Type Description Indicative date/s
Discussion Paper Scoping and issues paper for UCLL TSLRIC 30/05/2013
Consultation UCLL TSLRIC methodology 30/08/2013
Discussion Paper Final Pricing Principle - Implementing TSLRIC for UCLL paper 06/12/2013
Conference TSLRIC Final Pricing Principle conference 12/02/2014 - 13/02/2014
Consultation Requirements Specification for UCLL TSLRIC model 17/03/2014
Draft Determination Draft Determination for UCLL TSLRIC 03/11/2014
Conference Final Pricing Principle conference 18/02/2015 - 19/02/2015
Final Determination Final determination on UCLL Final Pricing Principle 01/06/2015

Disclaimer

These dates are not official and may change. Please see the Terms and Conditions for further limitations.

Project status

Scoping and issues discussion paper for UCLL TSLRIC due 30 May 2013