Part 2AADeregulating copper fixed line access services
Investigation
69AHSchedule 3 modified for investigation of certain copper services
Despite clause 1 of Schedule 3, the Commission must—
- complete, by no later than 31 December 2025, an investigation under Part 1 of Schedule 3 into whether Schedule 1 should be altered in any of the ways set out in section 66 or 67 in respect of the regulation of the following:
- copper fixed line access services:
- Chorus’s unbundled bitstream access backhaul:
- Chorus’s unbundled copper local loop network co-location:
- Chorus’s unbundled copper local loop network backhaul (telephone exchange to interconnect point); or
- copper fixed line access services:
- provide, within a reasonable time after 31 December 2025, written reasons why there were not reasonable grounds for starting such an investigation.
An investigation referred to in subsection (1)(a) must be completed in accordance withPart 1 of Schedule 3, except that the 240-working-days deadline referred to in clause 4(1) of Schedule 3 does not apply to the investigation.
Notes
- Section 69AH: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).


