On 12 December 2007, the Commerce Commission ("Commission") made a standard terms determination, under section 30M of the Telecommunications Act 2001 ("the Act") in respect of the designated access service of Telecom's unbundled bitstream access ("Decision 611"). Decision 611 has since been clarified on a number of occasions.
On 19 February 2010, the Commission commenced a review of the data transmission cost (a component of the UBA price) under section 30R of the Act.
On 3 March 2011, the Commission commenced a second review of the UBA pricing methodology under section 30R of the Act in order to assess the submissions made by the parties as part of the data cost review.
Section 30R of the Act provides that the Commission
may, on its own initiative, commence a review, at any
time, of all or any of the terms specified in a standard
terms determination and requires public notice of the commencement of the review.
Pursuant to section 30R(5)(d) of the Act, the Commission gives public notice that it has released its decision in relation to both of the above section 30R reviews of Decision 611.
A copy of the decision on these reviews can be found on the Commission's website
www.comcom.govt.nz/review-of-uba-data-costs-2/
Date of Decision: 28 July 2011.
COMMERCE COMMISSION.