The initial consultation period will run until 31 January 1997. There will then be a further period up to 13 February during which comments are invited on any submissions made to Oftel during the initial period. Comments are invited in particular on the questions highlighted in the text of the document and summarised in Chapter 6.
Written comments should be submitted to:
Chris Taylor
Consultation on Network Charge Controls
Oftel
50 Ludgate Hill
London
EC4M 7JJ
Written comments will be made publicly available in Oftel's Library except where respondents indicate that their response or parts of it are confidential. Respondents are therefore asked t separate out any confidential material into a confidential annex which is clearly marked as such. In the interests of transparency, respondents are requested to avoid confidentiality markings wherever possible.
Comments on this document can be sent to Oftel on the Internet (if they are relatively short) by filling in the form or by using the following email address:
press.office.oftel@gtnet.gov.uk
Oftel intends to set up a link between this document and any responses placed on respondents' own Internet pages. Please contact Cate MacPherson at Oftel on 0171634 8752 to organise this. Confidential responses should not be sent via the Internet.
Copies of NERA's report on the reconcilation of the topdown and bottomup incremental costs models will be available from Oftel's Library (tel: 0171634 8764/8765, fax: 0171 634 8964) as soon as it is published.
Oftel will be publishing a further informal consultative document in March 1997, and its final proposals together with guidelines and licence modifications for statutory consultation in May 1997.