Network Charges from 1997 - Consultative Document
Chapter 6: Summary of questions
6.1 Oftel would welcome comments on any issue raised by this document,
but in particular on the questions highlighted in the text and
listed below for ease of reference.
Chapter 2 - Structure of the Proposed Network Charge
Controls
- Oftel invites comments on the proposal that the new conveyance
services related to DQ and OA should be charged for on a pence
per minute basis, not a per call basis, and the proposal that
the conveyance services should not be decomposed into individual
services for each type of routing.
- Oftel would welcome comments on the proposed classification
of interconnection services by degree of competitiveness, and
the proposed network control treatment.
- Oftel would welcome suggestions about the ways in which transparency
of the incremental costs methodology could be furthe improved.
- Oftel invites comments on how confidence in the incremental
cost work and the hybrid figures could be further improved.
- Oftel would welcome comments on its proposal that the interim
charges determination for 1997/98 should be the last under the
current interconnection regime, (ie that there should not be a
final determination of interconnection charges for 1997/98).
- Oftel would welcome comments on the appropriate adjustment
to correct for the underpayment by BT Retail on own exchange calls,
which will arise during the early period of the new regime during
which the current set of components will continue to be used to
set interconnection charges.
- Oftel invites comments on its proposal that the DLE when performing
a tandem function should carry the same component rate as a tandem
switch.
Chapter 4 - Framework for the New Charge Controls
- Oftel seeks views on the principle of extended notice and
its application to interconnect charging proposals that have the
effect of introducing end-use charging or of decoupling time gradients.
- Oftel would welcome comments on the proposal to maintain the
powers of prior consent provided by C24F.
- Oftel would welcome views on the need for fully disaggregated
halfyearly CCA accounts.
- Oftel would welcome views on whether it would be appropriate
to require BT to publish similar sets of matrices (as are contained
in the existing Statement of Costs in BT's Financial Statements)
for floors and ceilings, including the routing factors, derived
from the hybrid outputs of the topdown model.
6.2 Oftel would also particularly welcome comments on its modelling methodology
explained in Chapter 5 and illustrated in Annex
F, the draft licence modifications at Annex A,
the draft Guidelines at Annex B, and the proposals
for dealing with complaints about anticompetitive behaviour at Annex
C.
