The Commission has published guidance on our interpretation of the equivalence and non-discrimination obligations on telecommunications network operators. We have also provided information sheets on these obligations and fibre services regulation.
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.
As a condition of participation in the ultra-fast broadband initiative, Chorus entered into an open access fibre deed (the Fibre Deed) under section 156AD of the Telecommunications Act 2001.
From 1 January 2022, price-quality and information disclosure regulations applies to providers of fibre fixed line access services that are regulated under Part 6 of the Telecommunications Act 2001.
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.
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.