Inquiry into Telecommunications - Telecom's submissions

Local Loop Unbundling

Under s64 of the Telecommunications Act, the Telecommunications Commissioner is required to conduct an investigation into whether Telecom's local loop and public data networks should be unbundled and made available to competitors.

The following are selected submissions Telecom has made to the Telecommunications Commissioner during this investigation.

Submission from Telecom on draft determination (348kb pdf)

Appendix 1 (425KB pdf)
Appendix 3 (20.4kb pdf)
Appendix 4 (146kb pdf)
Appendix 5 (135kb pdf)

Telecom cross-submission to Minister of Communications (259k doc)

Appendix 2 (64k pdf)
Appendix 3 - Response to NECG critique final report 1 March (117k pdf)
Appendix 4 - Jurisdiction Table (1059kb pdf)
Appendix 5 - WSA Comparison Table (633kb pdf)
Appendix 6 - Services table (508k pdf)
Appendix 9 - Common Agreed Terms (102k pdf)

Residential wholesale application submission from Telecom (368k pdf)

Telecom Submission on Public Policy Issues (382 KB pdf)

Telecom Submission on Legal and Interpretive Issues (1.65 MB pdf)

Telecom Submission on Commerce Commissions Issues Paper (1.23 MB pdf)

Telecom Submission on Commerce Commission's Draft Report (3.80 MB pdf)

Appendix A - Economic and Technical Critique of the OXERA Unbundling Cost Benefit Analysis (CRA, LECG, Hausman) (902 KB pdf)
Appendix B - Telecom NZ Efficiency Study - Response to OXERA CBA (IBM) (183 KB pdf)
Appendix C - Benchmarking Analysis (Howell) (493 KB pdf)

Telecom's Proposed Unbundled Private Circuit (UPC) Service

Telecom's LLU Conference Submission on Wholesale and the UPC Service (45.4 KB pdf)
Unbundled Partial Circuit Service - Overview (3.49 MB pdf)
Unbundled Partial Circuit Service - Technical and Pricing Details (262 KB pdf)

Telecommunication Service Obligation (TSO)

The Telecommunications Commissioner is obliged under the Telecommunications Act to calculate the nett cost to Telecom of providing the services specified in the TSO Deed (82.0 KB pdf), the so-called "Kiwi Share" obligations.

In performing these duties for the first time, the Telecommunications Commissioner had to first establish the framework for performing its assessment. This was then followed by the calculation of the nett cost to Telecom of providing service for the period 20 December 2001 to 30 June 2002.

The following are selected Telecom submissions on the Telecommunications Commissioner's TSO framework and TSO cost calculation for the 2001/02 financial year.

Telecom Submission on TSO Cornerstone Issues (55.4 KB pdf)