The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has rejected a G9 Proposal on Broadband pricing for a new fibre-to-the-node network. The main reason for doing so revolved around the unclear pricing that would come into play after the initial three year period was up. Although the proposal was rejected, the Optus led G9 consortium will still be able to revise the price undertakings and re-submit them to the ACCC for scrutiny again.
“We could not accept so much discretion from a gas, electricity or rail firm. Access seekers would not know where they stood,” said the ACCC.
More important in the ACCC’s response to G9 today was not what the regulator knocked back, but what it accepted – namely the pricing and the proposed vertical separation.
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