ComReg is responsible for the review of wholesale prices charged by operators that are deemed to have Significant Market Power (“SMP”) on their network. Once operators are designated through the ComReg market Analysis process of having “SMP”, remedies are imposed on them, one of which is a pricing obligation. This obligation can take different forms such as retail minus control; cost orientation, a price cap etc.

Examples of the network charges that ComReg currently regulate are as follows:

• Eircom network charges for the provision of calls by other operators;
• Wholesale line rental;
• Wholesale Broadband Access;
• Mobile termination rates;
• Local Loop Unbundling;
• Payphones;
• Leased Lines;
• Number Porting;
• Ancillary charges associated with the provision of wholesale network services by operators.