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Authorities/Other Agencies of State
Notice Title

Notice of Initiation of the Standard Terms Development Process for the Mobile Termination Access Services (MTAS) Fixed-to-Mobile Voice (FTM), Mobile-to-Mobile Voice (MTM) and Short Messaging Services (SMS) Under the Telecommunications Act 2001

Pursuant to section 30D of the Telecommunications Act 2001 ("the Act"), the Commerce Commission gives public notice that it has decided, under section 30C of the Act, to initiate a standard terms development process for the designated access service described in subpart 1, Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Act as:
"Termination (and its associated functions) on a cellular mobile telephone network of any, or any combination, of the following:
- voice calls originating on a fixed telephone network;
- voice calls originating on another cellular mobile telephone network; and
- short-message-service (SMS) originating on another cellular mobile telephone network.
For the avoidance of doubt, these services include the termination of internationally originated voice calls and SMS, and voice-over-Internet-protocol-originated voice calls, where these are handed over at a mobile switching centre in New Zealand."
Date of Decision: 28 September 2010.
COMMERCE COMMISSION.