Ofcom is proposing to modify BT’s SMP services conditions AA4, BA4 and PA1. These are the conditions that place limitations on what BT can charge other communications providers for wholesale services in markets in which BT has been found to have significant market power (SMP). The SMP analyses giving the underlying reasons for setting these conditions is set out in the statements entitled Review of fixed geographic call termination markets and Review of the fixed narrowband wholesale exchange line, call origination, conveyance and transit markets, which were published on 28 November 2003. The conditions themselves were established through those documents and that entitled Review of BT’s product management, policy and planning (PPP) charges, which was published on 28 July 2004.
The markets to which these conditions relate are to those in the UK except for the Hull Area. They are:
- call origination on fixed public narrowband networks;
- local-tandem conveyance and transit on fixed public narrowband networks;
- inter-tandem conveyance and transit on fixed public narrowband networks;
- single transit on fixed public narrowband networks;
- fixed geographic call termination;
- wholesale residential analogue exchange lines services;
- wholesale residential ISDN2 exchange line services;
- wholesale business analogue exchange line services;
- wholesale business ISDN2 exchange line services; and
- wholesale ISDN 30 exchange line services.
As well as the services directly in these markets, the conditions also control charges for interconnection circuits and the product management, policy and planning component.