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.
Number portability services allow end-users to keep their local and mobile phone numbers when they switch service providers. We reviewed the settings for these services before the previous determination expired in December 2021.
Input methodologies for fibre are the rules, requirements and processes that we are required to develop under Part 6 of the Telecommunications Act. We are currently developing these fibre input methodologies.
The Commission is required to review each industry dispute resolution scheme at least once every 3 years and provide any recommendations to the scheme provider on how to improve the scheme.
The transmission network supplying Bombay and Wiri substations is ageing and requires refurbishment. This network includes the transmission lines between Bombay and Otahuhu substations and Bombay and Meremere substations.
Aurora Energy (Aurora) has been moved to a customised price-quality path (CPP) and has been required to publish enhanced information so that stakeholders, including consumers, and the Commission can see what it is doing to fix, upgrade, maintain and operate its electricity lines network.
Every five years, the Commission is required to consider whether there are reasonable grounds for commencing an investigation into whether any services should be omitted from the list of designated or specified services in Schedule 1 of the Telecommunications Act 2001 (Act).
The Fibre Deeds require Chorus and the LFCs to supply wholesale services on a non-discriminatory and equivalent basis, and, since 1 January 2020, have also required them to offer a point-to-multipoint layer 1 fibre access service (PON Fibre Access Service). The Commission has developed guidance to assist industry participants to understand our approach to monitoring and enforcing non-discrimination and equivalence obligations in telecommunications, including in relation to the PON Fibre Access Service.