This section contains all current and closed Commission regulatory projects. This includes determinations, reports, inquiries, studies and disclosures relating to telecommunications, electricity lines, gas pipelines, airports and dairy.
Here you will find the amendments made to information disclosure requirements since 2013, including determinations, reasons papers, and consultation documents.
With New Zealand transitioning away from copper-based services, including those delivered by Spark’s public switched telephone network (PSTN), consumers will be required to switch to alternative access technologies such as fibre, hybrid fibre-coaxial cable, wireless broadband and mobile, in order to retain a telecommunications service.
We reviewed the future of our Measuring Broadband New Zealand (MBNZ) programme to assess its performance and ability to continue to provide consumers and the industry with information about broadband performance.
Under the airports information disclosure determination, suppliers of specified airport services can apply for exemptions from information disclosure requirements. We provide some guidance about applying for an exemption.
The Commerce Act 1986 (Act) currently exempts certain conduct in relation to intellectual property from being assessed as anti-competitive and in breach of the Act.
Under the gas distribution and gas transmission information disclosure determinations, gas pipeline businesses can apply for exemptions from information disclosure requirements. We provide some guidance about applying for an exemption.
The Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 (CCCF Act) has been amended. From April 2021 (delayed until October 2021 due to COVID-19) all directors and senior managers of lenders providing consumer credit contracts or acting as mobile traders are to be certified ‘fit and proper’ unless exempt.
We conducted a review of nearly 80,000 anonymous consumer bills, engaging Schiff Consulting to analyse how residential consumers buy and use mobile plans, add-ons and causal rates for data, mins and SMS.