The Commerce Commission (“Commission”) gives notice under section 179 of the Telecommunications Act 2001 that it has revised the proposed process and timeframe for determining the input methodologies (IMs) for fibre fixed line access services (FFLAS) set out in its Notice of Intention dated 19 November 2018.

The Key Revisions

The Commission will undertake further consultation during July and August 2020.

The date for publishing the final FFLAS IMs and the reasons paper explaining the final decisions has been extended from June 2020 to end September / beginning October 2020.

Further Information

A copy of the process update paper dated 20 May 2020 discussing the above matters is available on the Commission’s website at https://comcom.govt.nz/regulated-industries/telecommunications/projects/fibre-input-methodologies.

Date of Notice: 21 May 2020.

COMMERCE COMMISSION.