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Telecommunications Act 2001

Fibre fixed line access services - Price-quality regulation

204: What happens to price-quality path if input methodologies change

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"What happens to prices and service quality if the rules for working out costs change?"

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If the rules for working out costs change, you might wonder what happens to the price-quality path. You can't usually change the price-quality path during a regulatory period just because the rules for working out costs have changed. However, the Commission must change the price-quality path if the rules for working out costs change after an appeal under section 183, and this change would have made a big difference to the original price-quality path. When the Commission makes a new price-quality path, they must apply claw-back. The Commission will make a new price-quality path by changing the section 170 determination, following the rules in section 173. You can find more information about this in the Telecommunications Act.

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Part 6Fibre fixed line access services
Price-quality regulation

204What happens to price-quality path if input methodologies change

  1. A price-quality path may not be reopened within a regulatory period on the grounds of a change in an input methodology, except as provided in subsection (2).

  2. A price-quality path must be reopened by the Commission, and a new price-quality path made by amending the relevant section 170 determination in accordance with section 173, if—

  3. an input methodology changes as a result of an appeal under section 183; and
    1. had the changed methodology applied at the time the price-quality path was set, it would have resulted in a materially different path being set.

      1. When making a new price-quality path under subsection (2), the Commission must apply claw-back.

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      • Section 204: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).