Market for termination into the fixed network of A1 Telekom Austria AG: M 5/09-149 of July 26, 2010
On this market, the minimum elements to be covered by the Reference Offer to be submitted by A1 Telekom Austria AG were laid down in the subsequent section of the relevant market analysis decision (M 5/09-149) dated July 26, 2010:
Section B.3. „A1 Telekom Austria AG has to publish and regularly update a reference offer on its corporate website within four weeks from entry-into-force of this decision according to Paragraph 38 Section 3 of the Telecom Act 2003 regarding the services listed under Paragraph B.1. of this decision. All services have to be offered sufficiently unbundled, i.e. divided in a way so that only those have to be paid which are actually needed. The a.m. reference offer must contain at least the minimum elements listed below:
- Provisions regarding interconnection links
- Information on exchange sites
- Traffic types and charges
- Provisions regarding interconnection on lowest exchange level
- Provisions regarding access to emergency services
- Provisions regarding access to private networks
- Provisions regarding access to personal-number services
- Provisions regarding other value-added services (e.g. calls to fault-reporting centres or to audiotape services)
- Provisions regarding traffic handover to transit network operators on behalf of third parties
- Provisions regarding a mimum load of interconnection links while keeping the current rules but considering a mimum traffic amount of 150.000 minutes per 2 Mbit/s system (E1) and month (100.000 minutes per 2 Mbit/s system and month in case of 4 or less 2 Mbit/s systems at a given point of interconnection).
In addition, the reference offer shall stipulate that A1 Telekom Austria AG has to establish a detailed concept for a migration process set up with participation of alternative providers until May 2011 and submit the said concept to the Telecom Control Commission until May 30, 2011. The migration process refers to the migration of the whole legacy network of A1 Telekom Austria AG into an NGN. The migration concept has to cover, among other:
- detailed description of transposition measures from the current situation to the future scenario including exact time-schedules
- detailed description of technical consequences of network migration including consequences on interconnection billing with regard to traffic types
- detailed indication of modifications with regard to OES or NGN switches
- detailed indication of modifications with regard to sites and functions concerned compared to those sites and functions available within the A1 Telekom Austria network prior to migration from the former PSTN to an NGN
- detailed description of traffic routing after migration to an NGN
- introduction of a period of 6 months prior notice to the interconnection partners in case of modifications of the A1 Telekom Austria network relevant for NGN migration.
The migration process must be carried out in a way that alternative operators do not have to undo adaptations at a later stage undertaken in the course of the migration process.
All data referring to the migration process have to be updated regularly.“
A1 Telekom Austria AG has complied with its obligation to publish a reference offer in due time (see http://cdn2.a1.net/final/de/media/pdf/Zusammenschaltungsvertrag_zw_A1TA_u_ANB.pdf).