On 30 June 2011, the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011
("the Amendment Act") received royal assent.
Section 74(1) of the Telecommunications Act 2001
("the Act") requires that the Commerce Commission ("the Commission") must make reasonable efforts to make a standard terms determination (STD) under section 30M for Chorus’s unbundled copper low frequency service (UCLFS) before "separation day".
Separation day is defined in section 69B of the Act and means "the day on which Telecom Corporation of
New Zealand Limited distributes 100% of the ordinary shares it holds in ChorusCo in accordance with the demerger arrangement".
Pursuant to section 30D of the Act, the Commission gives public notice that it has initiated a STD development process for the UCLFS which is described in subpart 1, Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Act as:
"A service (and its associated functions, including the associated functions of operational support systems) that enables access to, and interconnection with, the low frequency (being the frequency band between 300 and 3400 Hz) in Chorus’s copper local loop network (including any relevant line in Chorus’s local telephone exchange or distribution cabinet) that connects the
end-user’s building (or, where relevant, the building’s distribution frame) to the handover point in Chorus’s local telephone exchange."
Further information about the UCLFS STD development process is available on the Commission’s website at
www.comcom.govt.nz/chorus-unbundled-copper-low-frequency-service-std/
Date of decision: 7 July 2011.
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