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Telecommunications Act 2001

Deregulating copper fixed line access services - Price regulated copper services

69AG: Continued application of certain standard terms determinations

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"Rules for some telecom services stay the same for now"

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You need to know about a law that affects some telecommunications services. This law is about services like Chorus's unbundled bitstream access and unbundled copper local loop network. The law says what happens to these services from certain dates. You will have the same rules for these services until a review date. The prices for these services will be the same as they were before, and they will change a bit each year. This change is called an annual CPI adjustment. After the review date, the rules might change. The law says that the standard terms determination for the service will still apply. You can find more information about this in Part 2 of the law, including sections 30R and 59. The review date is when the Commission finishes an investigation. You can find more information about this investigation in section 69AH(1)​(a) or Schedule 3. The Commission will look at the services and decide what to do next. The law is important for people who use these telecommunications services.

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Part 2AADeregulating copper fixed line access services
Price regulated copper services

69AGContinued application of certain standard terms determinations

  1. Subsection (2) applies to a standard terms determination made under section 30M that, immediately before 1 January 2020, applies to 1 or more of the following services:

  2. Chorus’s unbundled bitstream access backhaul:
    1. Chorus’s unbundled copper local loop network co-location:
      1. Chorus’s unbundled copper local loop network backhaul (telephone exchange to interconnect point).

        1. Despite anything in this Act, during the period starting on 1 January 2020 and ending on the close of the day immediately before the copper review date for the relevant service,—

        2. the determination continues to apply to the relevant service; and
          1. sections 30R and 59 do not apply in respect of the determination.

            1. For the purposes of subsection (2)(a),—

            2. the prices that apply are the year 5 prices specified in the determination; and
              1. those prices increase or decrease (as appropriate) by an annual CPI adjustment on 16 December in each year (starting on 16 December 2020).

                1. Subsection (5) applies to a standard terms determination made under section 30M that, immediately before 16 December 2019, applies to 1 or both of the following services:

                2. Chorus’s unbundled bitstream access:
                  1. Chorus’s unbundled copper low frequency service.

                    1. Despite anything in this Act, during the period starting on 16 December 2019 and ending on the close of the day immediately before the copper review date for the relevant service,—

                    2. the determination continues to apply to the relevant service; and
                      1. sections 30R and 59 do not apply in respect of the determination.

                        1. For the purposes of subsection (5)(a),—

                        2. the prices that apply are the year 5 prices specified in the determination; and
                          1. those prices increase or decrease (as appropriate) by an annual CPI adjustment on 16 December in each year (starting on 16 December 2020).

                            1. On and after the copper review date for a service referred to in subsection (1) or (4),—

                            2. the standard terms determination for the service continues to apply; and
                              1. Part 2 (including sections 30R and 59) applies in respect of the determination; and
                                1. unless the maximum prices in the determination are amended in accordance with Part 2, the maximum prices under the determination are those that applied immediately before the copper review date.

                                  1. In this section, copper review date for a service means the date on which the Commission completes, in relation to the service,—

                                  2. the investigation referred to in section 69AH(1)(a); or
                                    1. any other investigation under Schedule 3 that starts on or after 1 January 2020.

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