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Telecommunications Act 2001

Networks - Network operators and networks generally - Information requirement

111A: Information about interconnection arrangements

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"Big telecom companies must share how others can connect to their networks"

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If you are a major supplier of telecommunications, you must make some information available to the public. You have to share the procedures for connecting to your Public Telecommunications Network, or PTN. You also have to share the terms and conditions for supplying interconnection with your PTN.

A major supplier is a company like Spark, or someone the Governor-General declares to be a major supplier. The Minister can only recommend this if it helps New Zealand follow international rules. An order to declare someone a major supplier is secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

You can think of a PTN like a big network that lets people communicate with each other. The Minister and the Governor-General are important people who help make decisions about laws and rules in New Zealand. They have to follow certain processes to make sure everything is fair and legal.

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Network operators and networks generally: Information requirement

111AInformation about interconnection arrangements

  1. A major supplier must make publicly available a copy of—

  2. the procedures that apply to interconnection with a PTN owned or operated by that supplier; and
    1. all the applicable terms and conditions of supply for interconnection with that PTN.

      1. In this section, major supplier—

      2. means Spark; and
        1. includes a person who is declared by the Governor-General, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, to be a major supplier for the purposes of this section.

          1. The Minister must not make a recommendation under subsection (2)(b) unless the Minister is satisfied that the proposed order to which the recommendation relates is necessary to facilitate New Zealand's compliance with its international obligations.

          2. An order under subsection (2)(b) is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

          Notes
          • Section 111A: inserted, on , by section 53 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
          • Section 111A(1)(a): amended, on , by section 26(1) of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).
          • Section 111A(1)(b): amended, on , by section 26(1) of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).
          • Section 111A(2)(a): amended, on , by section 37(1) of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).
          • Section 111A(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).