The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today released its final report into the regulation of fixed line telecommunications services. It has decided to continue regulating wholesale services supplied using Telstra's copper network for another five years. Fixed line services enable retail telecommunications service providers to use Telstra's copper network and other fixed line infrastructure to provide a range of retail fixed line telephone and broadband services to Australian consumers. The ACCC will continue regulating the six fixed line services until 2019. The current declarations for the existing six fixed line services expire on 31 July 2014. "Regulating these services has promoted competition over bottleneck infrastructure. This has been fundamental to the development of competition in retail voice and broadband markets, which benefits Australian consumers," ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said.