Please find attached below details of our consultation on the process for requesting access contracts and variations to existing access contracts. 

The Statement of Process needs to address three key areas:

1. the form in which a request should be made; 

2. the information that the universal provider reasonably requires in order to consider a request for new D+2 Access or a variation to existing D+2 Access; and

3.  the reasonable timescales in which such requests will be handled by the Universal Service provider.

In this consultation we therefore seek the views of our customers and other interested parties on these 3 specific issues and we ask for responses to the four questions posed in this short consultation document by the 1st of June 2012.