In 2006 we began an investigation into whether to amend the terms of the roaming services under Schedule 3 of the Telecommunications Act.

In March 2008, we issued our final recommendation to the Minister for Communications and Information Technology on the regulation of mobile roaming. We recommended that the mobile roaming service not be designated, which means that it will not be subject to price regulation. We also recommended that the definition of the service be amended to make it compatible with modern technology.

The Minister accepted our recommendations, but asked us to consider whether there were grounds to commence a new investigation into the issue in light of new information the Minister had received since the recommendations were made.

In September 2008 we replied to the Minister that we did not consider there to be reasonable grounds to commence an investigation based on the information that had been assessed at that time. We informed the Minister that we would engage with interested parties and seek further information to better understand whether there are reasonable grounds to commence an investigation.

We reconsidered the matter after we had finalised our investigation into whether mobile termination access services should be subject to regulation.

In December 2010, we decided to not investigate whether the national mobile roaming service should be extended to include price because there were adequate commercial arrangements in place.

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  • 22 Apr 2009

    Completed

    Deferral of decision on National Roaming Investigation

    See documents

  • 29 Sep 2008

    Completed

    Request to look into designating the National Roaming Service

    See documents

  • 10 Mar 2008
  • 14 Dec 2007
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • 02 Nov 2007
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • 31 Aug 2007
  • 03 Aug 2007
  • 22 May 2007
  • 14 Mar 2007

    Completed

    Submissions on Issues Paper and the Vodafone Undertaking

    See documents

  • 15 Dec 2006

    Completed

    Mobile Schedule 3 Investigations into Amendments to the Roaming and Co-location Services

    See documents

  • 10 Oct 2006

    Completed

    Review of Cellular Mobile Market Entry Issues

    See documents

  • 10 May 2006

    Completed

    Preliminary Letter to Industry Regarding the Mobile Market Exercise

    See documents

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