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Telecommunications Act 2001

Deregulating copper fixed line access services - Deregulating copper fixed line access services

69AC: Withdrawal of copper fixed line access services

You could also call this:

"Stopping old copper phone and internet services when fibre is available"

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If you get a copper fixed line access service from Chorus, this section applies to you. You get this service because Chorus is required to supply it to you under a standard terms determination made under section 30M. Chorus started supplying the service when your building was not in a fibre area.

Now, your building is in a fibre area because of a notice under section 69AB, and the service is no longer a designated access service. Chorus can stop supplying the service, but only if they follow a copper withdrawal code or you choose to disconnect the service.

Chorus does not have to supply the service to a new user or restart the service if they have already stopped it.

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Deregulating copper fixed line access services

69ACWithdrawal of copper fixed line access services

  1. This section applies if—

  2. Chorus is required by a standard terms determination made under section 30M to supply a copper fixed line access service to an access seeker; and
    1. Chorus started supplying the service at a time when the end-user’s building (or, where relevant, the building’s distribution frame) was not located in a specified fibre area; and
      1. as a result of a notice under section 69AB,—
        1. the end-user’s building (or, where relevant, the building’s distribution frame) becomes located in a specified fibre area; and
          1. the service ceases to be a designated access service in the specified fibre area on and after the date specified in the notice.

          2. Chorus may stop supplying the service referred to in subsection (1) only if—

          3. a copper withdrawal code has been approved and Chorus complies with the requirements of the code in relation to stopping the supply of the service; or
            1. the end-user chooses to have the service disconnected (other than a temporary disconnection).

              1. To avoid doubt, Chorus is not required to—

              2. supply a service that ceases to be a designated access service in relation to a new end-user; or
                1. resupply a service that Chorus has stopped supplying in accordance with subsection (2).

                  Notes
                  • Section 69AC: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).