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Comments on Draft ADSL Regulations

Introduction

Costs should be split into 4 tiers plus a once-off installation charge.

A. Once-off installation charge levied by network operator to ISP and recov ered by ISP from end-user. Cost of setting up a user's connection from user$B!G(Bs premises to the ISP.

B. Recurring Costs by the network operator to ISPs should be regulated and include 2 service components:

• The network operator supplies the connection between the end user and t he ISP$B!G(Bs termination point on the network operator$B!G(Bs network. The network operator must offer (unless technically unviable) a basic service that is subject to guaranteed minimum standards in terms of line speed and contention ratio. T he minimum standards for the basic service shall be a line speed of 512kbps an d a contention ratio of 50:1. At the discretion of ISPs, other service levels m ay be negotiated. - ISPs purchase bandwidth at wholesale rates to the network operator$B!G(Bs network.

The authority shall, at the request of the parties, intervene and make a determination wherever there is disagreement on the basic connection servic e (as outlined in par 1 above) and/or wholesale rates for bandwidth (as referenced in par 2 above).

C. End user service.

Service providers (SPs) offer ADSL services to end users.

All SPs must offer a basic service consisting of a 512kbps connection to th e Internet. The basic service shall be capped at 3GB and subject to a reasona ble minimum service level standard by international norms.

SPs may provide any other service at their discretion.

Any service with capping, including the basic service outlined above, must be unshaped.