ACCC issues draft decision to reject Telstra's PSTN and LCS undertakings.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 September 2006-ACCC: ACCC issues draft decision to reject Telstra's PSTN and LCS undertakings(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11092006 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today issued its draft decision to reject Telstra's Public Switched Telephone Network Originating and Terminating Access Services and Local Carriage Service undertakings.

The PSTN OTA services are used as inputs by competitors primarily to supply long distance calls as well as fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-fixed calls. They can also be used by competitors to interconnect with Telstra's fixed network. The LCS is used by competitors to supply local calls to end users. It allows competitive entrants to resell local calls without deploying...