Ofcom has determined, in accordance with the Commission’s Guidelines, that there are no persons with significant market power (“SMP”) in any of the 235 wholesale international services markets.
Section 84(4) of the Communications Act 2003 (the “Act”) provides that where on, or in consequence of, a further analysis Ofcom determines that a person to whom SMP conditions apply is no longer a person with SMP in that market, they must revoke every SMP services condition applied to that person by reference to the market power determination made on the basis of an earlier analysis.
Ofcom has therefore decided to revoke conditions KA1, KA2, KA3 and KA4 previously imposed on British Telecommunications plc (“BT”) and set out in Schedule 3 of the Director General of Telecommunications’ (the “Director’s”) notification pursuant to Section 48(1) and Section 79 of the Act of 18 November 2003. Ofcom has also decided to modify the SMP services conditions on BT relating to regulatory accounting in respect of various markets notified to BT on 22 July 2004 such that the wholesale international conveyance markets numbered 11 in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to that notification to which the conditions apply shall be revoked.