The director general of the UK Office of Telecommuncations watchdog has announced that he will chair a private workshop on standard interconnection tariffs on October 11 – and according to the Financial Times, AT&T Co is among those invited to attend. This is in response to the Office’s consultative document ‘Interconnection and Accounting Separation’, whose passages on standard tariffs, together with British Telecommunications Plc’s proposals for standard interconnection tariffs aroused considerable interest. The workshop, which is to consist of 30 participants, will be confined to operators with a direct interest in interconnection tariffs. British Telecom has agreed to participate and enlarge on the proposals for a standard interconnect price list put forward in its paper. The Office of Telecommunications said that AT&T had been invited purely for the wealth of its experience in the US on the way competing telephone companies pay each other for completing calls.
