NTS Retail Uplift definition
Examples of NTS Retail Uplift in a sentence
However, BT believed it was inappropriate for Ofcom to be consulting on the NTS Retail Uplift and the associated charge control in advance of completing the NTS Framework Re-examination (“NTS FR”).
Ofcom's initial view is that it would be failing its obligations to encourage competition if it took no action and therefore Ofcom considers that the NTS Retail Uplift that BT can retain should be regulated.
It also proposes the basis for the charge control for the NTS Retail Uplift and a revised level for the PRS bad debt surcharge.
BT’s preferred option was Option 3B (this option proposed that BT’s NTS Retail Uplift charge control will follow a glide path from its existing level to a target charge based on BT’s 02/03 Fully Attributed Cost (FAC)).
UKCTA argued that the NTS Retail Uplift charge control should take effect from 1 April 2004.
Where appropriate, input assumptions are consistent with those underlying the NTS Retail Uplift charge control.
However, in the absence of specific regulation, BT would have the incentive to set an excessively high charge for the NTS Retail Uplift and assert market power in downstream markets.
This has the advantage of combining future revisions of both sets of controls and enables BT to revise the NTS Retail Uplift annually at the same time as its other wholesale charges.
In the July 2004 Consultation, Ofcom proposed a methodology for deriving the charge control to apply to the NTS Retail Uplift.
As set out in paragraphs 14.11 to 14.15 of the March 2003 Consultation, ▇▇▇▇▇ considered whether the most appropriate course of action would be to take no action in relation to the NTS Retail Uplift.