The Commerce Commission wants to retain the power to regulate mobile roaming

The Commerce Commission intends to retain the power to regulate mobile national roaming, which helps operators extend coverage beyond their own physical networks.

The regulator has the power to require the country's mobile operators. Zealand, and Two Degrees Mobile, to provide wholesale access to their networks for a period of time to any new network operator. It is necessary to consider deregulation of services such as mobile national roaming every five years.

"National mobile roaming has helped 2Degrees deliver a national service to its customers from day one, before deploying its own national network infrastructure." Commissioner Stephen Gale said in a statement. that the power to regulate remains an important safeguard for competition, particularly with 5G networks and potential new entrants on the horizon. "

The Commission requests comments on its preliminary opinion by 30 July. September

Separately, the Commission intends to file today a lawsuit against Spark under the Fair Trading Act 1986 in respect of three distinct historical operational and billing issues, including a blackout. Equipment in 2015 that affected the billing of data for a small percentage of customers, the incorrect introduction of a "welcome credit" at the time of l & # 3; 9; Spark membership for some fiber optic broadband customers in 2016 and a billing implementation issue related to a 30-day notice period when customers leave Spark

errors caused by true intentionless errors from Spark, "the Auckland-based company said in a statement. "With regard to all these issues, Spark has already applied credits to the accounts of all the relevant customers and has made considerable efforts to repay all amounts owed to former customers."

The company stated that it would review the procedures and have not yet determined the position it will take in response. The potential sanctions would be decided by the court, but Spark stated that it did not expect the proceedings to have a significant effect on its financial position or profitability, and did not change its guidelines for the company. Fiscal year 2018.

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(BusinessDesk)

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