Pursuant to section 35 of the Telecommunications Act 2001 ("the Act"), the Commerce Commission ("the Commission") gives public notice of its decision to initiate a process for
a determination for the designated multinetwork services of "local telephone number portability" and "cellular telephone number portability" after 19 December 2010.
Currently, Decision 554 ("the Determination") dated
31 August 2005* (which has been clarified on a number
of occasions) governs the local and cellular telephone number portability services and is due to expire on
19 December 2010.
Under section 31AA of the Act, the Commission may, on
its own initiative, at any time, initiate the process for a determination of:
(a) the functions that must be performed by a system for delivering the designated multinetwork service and the standard to which those functions must be performed; and
(b) the formula for how the cost of delivering the service must be apportioned between the access seeker and all access providers of the service.
The Commission considers that there are reasonable grounds to initiate the process for review of the Determination under section 31AA(2) of subpart 3 of Part 2 of the Act because the Determination is due to expire.
On 7 October 2010, the Commission received submissions from affected parties in relation to the initiation of the Commission’s inquiry, and all parties agreed that an investigation was required.
Date of Decision: 12 October 2010.
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
*New Zealand Gazette, 8 September 2005, No. 154, page 3813