NBN wholesale contracts near final hurdle

After months of changes and deliberation, NBN Co has released the final draft of its short-term Wholesale Broadband Agreement, and committed to an execution date of the end of this month.

The fifth time that the WBA has been revised

This is the fifth time that the WBA has been revised. Previous versions of the WBA had dictated a five-year term, which had caused concerns from the ACCC. RSPs were not comfortable with engaging in long-term agreements during some aspects of NBN Co's business were nevertheless being developed.

NBN Co said that CVC pricing would as well move to a regime that stops charging when a service has been suspended in favour of a reconnection fee, and that it would become more lenient on charges for the incorrect call-out of NBN Co field staff in recognition that RSPs would be learning how the network operates over the coming months.

The company will provide a cloud-based hosted voice product called MyPBX to the small- to medium-sized enterprise market. It acquired access to the research following a deal with Australian voice over IP provider Engin to gain wholesale access to its Broadsoft platform.

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