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Telecommunications Act 2001

Structural separation of Telecom - Line of business restrictions

69S: No end-to-end services

You could also call this:

"Chorus can't connect your sites together, it can only link to its own connection points."

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Chorus cannot provide telecommunications links to customers except in certain situations. You can get a link from your building to a Chorus connection point, and Chorus can link its own connection points. When Chorus provides links to customers, they must stop at a Chorus connection point. Chorus cannot sell a service that links two or more of your sites together, but you can create your own links. If Chorus breaks this rule, it can be fined up to $10 million, and $500,000 per day, see sections 156L(3) and 156M for more information.

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Part 2AStructural separation of Telecom
Line of business restrictions

69SNo end-to-end services

  1. Chorus, or any related party of Chorus, must not provide telecommunications links to customers except—

  2. between an end-user’s building (or, in the case of a commercial building, the 2 building distribution frames) and a Chorus local or regional aggregation point; and
    1. between 2 Chorus local or regional aggregation points.

      1. To avoid doubt,—

      2. telecommunications links provided by Chorus, or a related party of Chorus, to customers must terminate at a local or regional aggregation point; and
        1. Chorus, or a related party of Chorus, must not sell a service to customers that links 2 or more end-user sites together (but a customer of Chorus can create the linking between 2 or more end-user sites).

          1. However, this section does not prevent the resale of PSTN-based services for the purposes of acting as a channel to market for Telecom.

          2. See sections 156L(3) and 156M for the maximum penalty of $10 million (and $500,000 per day) for breach of this section.

          Notes
          • Section 69S: substituted, on (being the date of separation day, and an Order in Council (SR 2011/302) having been made under section 36), by section 51 of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).