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 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.
Recent amendments to the Telecommunications Act mean that the treatment of broadcasting services revenue in the Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) is changing.
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).
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.
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 Commission uses specified instructions and templates to get the information we need to make our annual Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) determination.