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.
The Copper Withdrawal Code came into effect on 1 March 2021 setting out minimum requirements that Chorus must meet before it stops supplying copper services.
The mobile termination access service (MTAS) is a wholesale service supplied by a mobile network operator (MNO) which allows customers on other networks to communicate (either by way of a voice call or SMS) with customers of that MNO.
The Act allows us to specify points of interconnection (POIs) which are places in wholesale networks where responsibility for fibre services is handed over from a fibre provider to other commercial service providers.
The Commission uses specified instructions and templates to get the information we need to make our annual Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) determination.