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Telecommunications Act 2001

Services provided using networks developed with Crown funding: Undertakings regime and Commerce Act 1986 authorisations - Preliminary provisions

156AA: Overview

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"Introduction to rules for companies using government-funded networks for internet and phone services"

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This part of the law is about services provided using special networks that were built with help from the government. You need to know that these networks are used for things like internet and phone services. If a company provides these services using one of these networks, they have to promise to treat all their customers fairly and equally, and they have to follow certain rules, which are explained in more detail in subpart 2.

The law also says that some services cannot be changed or altered before a certain date, which is explained in section 156AP. Companies that provide these services also have to share information about their costs and other things with the Commission, as required in subpart 3.

The law helps companies that provide services using networks built with government funding to make promises about how they will provide those services, as explained in subpart 4, and it also gives them some exemptions under the Commerce Act 1986, which are explained in subpart 5 and subpart 6.

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Part 4AAServices provided using networks developed with Crown funding: Undertakings regime and Commerce Act 1986 authorisations
Preliminary provisions

156AAOverview

  1. This Part—

  2. requires providers of wholesale telecommunications services that are provided using a fibre optic communications network that is constructed, in whole or in part, with Crown investment funding provided as part of the Ultra-fast Broadband Initiative, or that provide access to unbundled elements of such a network, to give enforceable undertakings providing for non-discrimination, equivalence, and other matters in relation to the supply of those services (subpart 2); and
    1. restricts unbundling of point-to-multipoint layer 1 services before 1 January 2020 in respect of those service providers (section 156AP); and
      1. requires those service providers to disclose information concerning costs and other matters in accordance with requirements of the Commission (subpart 3); and
        1. enables providers of wholesale telecommunications services provided using a network that is constructed, in whole or in part, with Crown investment funding as part of the Rural Broadband Initiative to give enforceable undertakings that provide for non-discrimination and other matters in relation to those services (subpart 4); and
          1. provides certain Commerce Act 1986 authorisations in respect of participation in the Rural Broadband Initiative (subpart 5) and the Ultra-fast Broadband Initiative (subpart 6).

            1. This section is intended only as a guide to the general scheme and effect of this Part.

            Notes
            • Section 156AA: inserted, on , by section 81 of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).