On 21 December 2006, the Commerce Commission ("Commission"), pursuant to section 15 of the Network Terms for Local and Mobile Number Portability in
New Zealand ("Network Terms"), approved an exemption for Telecom New Zealand Limited ("Telecom") to clause 14.2.3 of the Network Terms.
The Network Terms are part of Commission Decision
554 on the multi-party application for determination of
"local telephone number portability service" and "cellular telephone number portability service" designated multinetwork services, dated the 31st day of August 2005, pursuant to section 39 of the Telecommunications Act 2001 ("the Act"), in the matter of an application for determination for designated multinetwork services under section 31 of the Act.
Clause 14.2.3 of the Network Terms makes it a requirement to offer customers with ported numbers the same services and features as those offered to customers with non-ported numbers.
The Commission has granted Telecom an exemption from clause 14.2.3 of the Network Terms for eight services and features specified in Telecom's application for exemption that are hosted off the NEAX61E switches at the exchanges listed in Appendix 1 of that application and that would usually be made available to customers in-porting their numbers to Telecom's network.
The period for which the exemption applies is between
1 April 2007 and 31 December 2012.
A copy of the exemption is available on the Commission's website at
http://www.comcom.govt.nz//IndustryRegulation/Telecommunications/NumberPortablility/ContentFiles/Documents/Exemption%20to%20clause%2014_2_3.pdf
Dated at Wellington this 21st day of December 2006.
COMMERCE COMMISSION.