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Telecommunications Act 2001

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156AC: Purposes

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"This law helps you by making telecom companies compete fairly and treat users equally."

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The purposes of this part of the law are to help you by promoting competition in telecommunications markets. This is so you can get better services in the long term. The law also aims to make sure companies are transparent, do not discriminate, and treat all users equally when providing certain telecommunications services, and to help companies invest efficiently in telecommunications infrastructure and services.

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156ACPurposes

  1. The purposes of this subpart are to—

  2. promote competition in telecommunications markets for the long-term benefit of end-users of telecommunications services in New Zealand; and
    1. require transparency, non-discrimination, and equivalence of supply in relation to certain telecommunications services; and
      1. facilitate efficient investment in telecommunications infrastructure and services.

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