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• Comcom issues draft co-location terms

  The Commerce Commission has released its draft determination on the non-price terms for cellular providers to share mobile transmission sites.

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• Telecom oversight group goes online

  The Independent Oversight Group (IOG) set up to monitor and report on Telecom’s separation undertakings has made its online debut.

• Lawyer warns telcos over regulatory landmines

  Solicitor Michael Wigley delivered a series of warnings to telecommunications operators over the new telecommunications regulatory environment at the annual Tel.Con 9 conference, held in Auckland last week.

• Comcom regulates South Island backhaul

  The Commerce Commission has decided to regulate primary and secondary backhaul links in most of the South Island after determining those links were not subject to significant competition.

• The weather report: 'Variability' is the scourge of NZ's networks

  The idea behind this column is to take a look back at the country’s broadband performance and to focus on a couple of issues of interest; for example a particular ISP’s performance, a particular performance issue, international comparisons or new technologies.

• Comcom delivers telecommunications verdict

  The Commerce Commission has delivered its fifth quarterly telecommunications monitoring report, for the first time benchmarking Vodafone’s fixed line residential phone plans and its home phone plus national plan that uses its mobile network. 

• Telco questions MED's role in spectrum management

  TelstraClear wants spectrum management to be removed from the Ministry of Economic Development and placed with the Telecommu-nications Commissioner.

• Comcom goes down on 0867

  A High Court ruling in a case dating back to 1999 has found that Telecom did not contravene the Commerce Act when it introduced its controversial 0867 package.

• Comcom chooses Epitiro to monitor broadband

  The Commerce Commission has selected Epitiro Technologies to deliver measurements of broadband data quality in New Zealand.

• Dell falls foul of Commerce Commission

  Dell has settled with the Commerce Commission and admitted breaches of the fair trading act involving misrepresentation.

• Xtra may have broken law with broadband ads: ComCom

  Following complaints over Telecom Xtra’s broadband advertising, the Commerce Commission says that in its opinion, Xtra may have breached the Fair Trading Act by misleading the public as to the characteristics of its DSL service.

• 'Grandfathering' no more and interleaving mandatory for Xtra customers

  Xtra customers on older DSL plans, which feature 192kbit/s upstream speeds, who hoped to stay on these plans — rather than moving to slower 128kbit/s alternative — have had their hopes quashed by Telecom. The telco has sent out a letter saying they will be migrated to new plans no matter what.

• Vodafone: Savings from lowered termination rates not passed on

  Mobile operator Vodafone, which is being scrutinised by the Commerce Commission for the high mobile termination rates it charges for calls to its network, says it has lowered these to an average of 20¢ per minute.

• ISPs seek legal block to Telecom's broadband plans

  CallPlus is calling on the Commerce Commission to move swiftly to stop Telecom introducing its new broadband pricing regime, due to take effect from October 26.