This Statement contains the conclusions of Ofcom's review of network charge controls (NCCs) and the formal legal Notifications to give effect to new NCCs. Ofcom published a consultation on proposals for NCCs on 19 March 2009, referred to in the Statement as the March consultation.
We received 14 responses to the March consultation. A list of respondents is included in this Statement at Annex 3.
This document must be read in conjunction with our March consultation document for the full reasoning of Ofcom's final decisions on the setting of the SMP conditions imposing the NCCs on BT. Our original analysis and proposals for NCC were set out in full in our March consultation. Our conclusions in this statement are drawn from that original analysis and the further consideration we have afforded to each issue after carefully considering each and every response we received to our consultation.
The NCC review has been managed in close coordination with the concurrent reviews of retail and wholesale narrowband markets. Statements containing the conclusions of these reviews have been published simultaneously with this Statement.