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Everyone's having their say on the ACCC's market review, and that has now included Optus, with comment from Alex Sheridan, vice-president of Regulatory and Public Affairs, welcoming the ACCC focus on NBN pricing reform.

The Communications Alliance has "welcomed the pro-competitive stance of the ACCC’s draft Communications Sector Market Study report, released today by the regulator".

The CCC says the ACCC's draft report "is a significant milestone in shaping appropriate future regulation of the rapidly changing telecoms and communications sector."

Hardly any telcos or telecommunications lobby groups are willing to come out in support of Vodafone Hutchison Australia's move to take the ACCC to court over its recent draft decision not to declare mobile roaming, though many were quick to slam the competition regulator when it made the original decision to do so.

The CCC is commending the ACCC ‘for today publishing its first data on market shares on the NBN, which gave early insights into emerging areas of concern for competition.’

The Competitive Carriers’ Coalition (CCC) says ‘the latest deal between the NBN and Telstra raises serious questions about how much consumers and competitors are being compromised.’

The  Department of Communication's “intervention” in the Telstra fixed line pricing issue, has outraged the Competitive Carriers Coalition to the extent that it has now called on the federal government to instruct the department to withdraw its submission on pricing to the ACCC.

With CCC member carriers always complaining about Telstra, the latest price reductions logically mean ACCC’s draft price reductions are sensible and reasonable.

Australia’s Competitive Carriers Coalition has wasted no time in blasting Telstra following the report of the CIE report via Vodafone showing a massive Telstra price premium.

The Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC) has attempted to take the high ground releasing a 'statement of regulatory principles' ahead of what is shaping up to be very polarised pre-lection debate around the NBN and communications policy in general hoping it will engender "more policy debate and less political posturing." Good luck to it.

The ACCC has suspended its assessment of NBN Co's special access undertaking (SAU) and is awaiting lodgement of a revised undertaking by NBN Co. The move comes after a broad range of industry players all expressed serious concerns with the initial version.

The Competitive Carriers' Coalition says the exemption granted by the Federal Government to Telstra will mean thousands of Australians will not gain the full benefits of competition.

The ACCC has revoked a ruling that exempted Telstra from being required to provide wholesale services at regulated prices from some 200 exchanges.

Telstra has lodged a revised structural separation undertaking (SSU) with the ACCC, saying that it incorporates a number of important changes in response to concerns about the first version raised by the ACCC and the industry but that these are not sufficiently material to negate the shareholder approval of its definitive agreements with NBN Co and the Government. The ACCC has responded saying that issues remain around wholesale ADSL services, which it will address separately, but if these can be resolved, it is inclined to accept the undertaking.

NBN Co yesterday published the final executable version of the Wholesale Broadband Agreement (WBA) that sets out the commercial arrangements and obligations between NBN Co and its customers - and drew immediate criticism from the body representing some of its largest potential customers.

The Competitive Carriers' Coalition has expressed concern that NBN Co is not subject to full ACCC oversight.

The Competitive Carriers' Coalition has fired another salvo at Telstra's plans for structural separation, branding Telstra's proposal for rebates if its wholesale services fail to meet specified performance levels as "[failing] to meet even the basic criteria which would be expected of a standard, commercially negotiated arrangement."

Telstra is seeking to allay the ACCC's concerns and the widespread industry opposition to its structural separation undertaking with plans to hold an industry forum, ahead of which it has released an issues paper.

Telstra has told shareholders that it does not expect any changes required by the ACCC to its proposed structural separation plans will have a material impact. This is very surprising given the strident and almost universal opposition to the plans from Telstra's competitors.

Dominant carrier Telstra, has hit back at demands from its competitors to make public financial information relating to its proposed structural separation in the wake of the National Broadband Network, citing commercial sensitivity of some of the data.