Telstra sued by regulator over LLU access violations

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Telstra sued by regulator over LLU access violations Thursday 19 March 2009

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court in Melbourne against Telstra for alleged violations of its LLU and line-sharing regulations. The standard access obligations require Telstra to permit interconnection of facilities to enable the supply of loop unbundling and line sharing to rival service providers. In addition, Telstra must ensure that access seekers receive equivalent technical and operational quality and timing of interconnection to that which Telstra provides itself. The ACCC alleges that Telstra has refused requests for interconnection at seven key metropolitan exchanges by claiming that they were "capped". In particular, Telstra claimed that there was no capacity on the main distribution frames available to interconnect their equipment to the copper wires running to customer homes. The ACCC alleges that there was capacity available, or that could have been made available, on Telstra's main distribution frames. The ACCC alleges that Telstra breached the access regime in the Telco Act which requires Telstra to provide access to its facilities, and the operator also engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct in contravention of the Trade Practices Act. The ACCC is seeking declarations, pecuniary penalties and injunctions. The case will be heard on 17 April. Telstra said the case relates to a "small number of inadvertent process issues" that the company fixed already a year ago. The ACCC was informed about Telstra's review of access to its exchanges, and in July 2008, the ACCC instituted a reporting regime to keep an eye on the process. Telstra said the regulator had raised no issues about the operator's current processes

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At least the Australian regulator makes the incumbent publish a list

http://telstrawholesale.com/products/docs/teba/fixed_facilities_access_capped_sites.pdf

Comreg force all operators to pay for a site survey to find that the exchange is blocked according to eircom .